Definition of number

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Number (n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.

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Fewness :: Fewness (n.) The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity.
Thrave :: Thrave (n.) The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng..
Accumulate :: Accumulate (v. i.) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
Cahier :: Cahier (n.) A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
Hexade :: Hexade (n.) A series of six numbers.
Give :: Give (n.) To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship..
Protista :: Protista (n. pl.) A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals..
Naphthalene :: Naphthalene (n.) A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, analogous to benzene, and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials, such as the heavy oil of coal tar. It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among organic compounds. Formerly called also naphthaline..
Coefficient :: Coefficient (n.) A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction..
Pyrites :: Pyrites (n.) A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color..
Number :: Number (n.) Numerousness; multitude.
Comminution :: Comminution (n.) Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.
Number :: Number (n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things..
Foil :: Foil (n.) The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed..
Select :: Select (a.) Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.
Chosen :: Chosen (p. p.) Selected from a number; picked out; choice.
Mora :: Mora (n.) A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes..
Knitchet :: Knitchet (n.) A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot.
Numbered :: Numbered (imp. & p. p.) of Numbe.
Keno :: Keno (n.) A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered..
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