Definition of Number

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Number

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.

To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.

To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.

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.

To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.

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Number Quotations

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Kahlil Gibran

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Steven Wright

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will Rogers

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Number Translations

number in Afrikaans is nommer, aantal
number in Danish is antal, nummer, tal
number in Dutch is aantal, getal, tal
number in Finnish is numero
number in German is numerieren, Zahl, Anzahl {f}, Nummer, Nummer
number in Italian is novero, numerare, numero, numero
number in Latin is numerus
number in Norwegian is nummer
number in Swedish is antal, tal, nummer

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