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Num"ber (nŭm"b&etilde_;r), n. [OE. nombre, F. nombre, L. numerus; akin to Gr. no`mos that which is dealt out, fr. ne`mein to deal out, distribute. See Numb, Nomad, and cf. Numerate, Numero, Numerous.] 1. 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.
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2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
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Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers. Addison.
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3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
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4. Numerousness; multitude.
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Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage. Bacon.
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5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
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Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number. 2 Esdras iii. 7.
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6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
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7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
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I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Pope.
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8. (Gram.) 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.
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9. (Math.) 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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Abstract number, Abundant number, Cardinal number, etc. See under Abstract, Abundant, etc. -- In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers.
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Num"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbered (nŭm"b&etilde_;rd); p. pr & vb. n. Numbering.] [OE. nombren, noumbren, F. nombrer, fr. L. numerare, numeratum. See Number, n.]
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1. To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
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If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Gen. xiii. 16.
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2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
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He was numbered with the transgressors. Is. liii. 12.
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3. 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.
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4. To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.
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Thy tears can not number the dead. Campbell.
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Numbering machine, a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc.
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Syn. -- To count; enumerate; calculate; tell.
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