English > numeral: 2 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A symbol used to represent a number. |
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| Example | "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school" |
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| Synonym | number |
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| Narrower | Arabic numeral, Hindu numeral, Hindu-Arabic numeral | One of the symbols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 |
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| Roman numeral | A symbol in the old Roman notation |
| antilogarithm, antilog | The number of which a given number is the logarithm |
| Broader | symbol | An arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance |
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| Spanish | cifra, letra numeral, numeral, número |
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| Catalan | nombre, numeral, número, xifra |
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