To count; reckon; ascertain the number of, or aggregate of individuals in; enumerate.
To make or keep a reckoning of; count up, as by naming or setting down one by one; make a tally or list of.
To complete as to number; limit; come to the end of.
To reckon as one of a collection or multitude; include in a list or class.
To put a number or numbers on; assign a distinctive number to; mark the order of, as of the members of a series; assign the place of in a numbered series: as, to number a row of houses, or a collection of books.
To possess to the number of.
To amount to; reach the number of: as, the force under the command of Cæsar numbered 45,000 men.
To equal in number.
Synonyms and To tell, calculate, reckon, call over, sum up.
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A term used in the textile-industry to designate the size or fineness of yarn; the number of units of length contained in a given weight of the product.
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Same as complex number (which see, under complex).
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A sign or symbol for a cardinal number; a sign 1, 2, 3, … or its name ‘one,’ ‘two,’ ‘three,’ …
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The cardinal number of a finite set; that property of the set because of which we shall arrive at the same natural number in whatever order we count the set.