That which admits of being counted or
reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or
collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things
expressible by figures.
A collection of many individuals; a
numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
A numeral; a word or character denoting a
number; as, to put a number on a door.
Numerousness; multitude.
The state or quality of being numerable or
countable.
Quantity, regarded as made up of an
aggregate of separate things.
That which is regulated by count; poetic
measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry,
verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
The distinction of objects,
as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more
than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word;
thus, the singular number and the plural number are the
names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or
referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.
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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