Definition of numeral

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Numeral (n.) A figure or character used to express a number; as, the Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, etc.; the Roman numerals, I, V, X, L, etc..

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Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line..
D :: D () As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000..
L :: L () As a numeral, L stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language..
Figure :: Figure (n.) To indicate by numerals; also, to compute..
Numeral :: Numeral (n.) Of or pertaining to number; consisting of number or numerals.
V :: V () As a numeral, V stands for five, in English and Latin..
I :: I () As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc..
Numeral :: Numeral (n.) Expressing number; representing number; as, numeral letters or characters, as X or 10 for ten..
Numerally :: Numerally (adv.) According to number; in number; numerically.
Some :: Some (a.) About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence..
Numeration :: Numeration (n.) The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method..
#NAME? :: -mo () A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16¡, 18¡, etc..
Scale :: Scale (n.) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc..
M :: M () As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin..
Distributive :: Distributive (n.) A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral..
C :: C () As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc..
Number :: Number (n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door..
Number :: Number (n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building..
Roman :: Roman (a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc..
Numeral :: Numeral (n.) A word expressing a number.
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