English > real number: 1 sense > noun 1, quantity| Meaning | Any rational or irrational number. |
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| Synonym | real |
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| Narrower | irrational number, irrational | A real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number |
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| rational number, rational | An integer or a fraction |
| scalar product, inner product, dot product | A real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors |
| Broader | complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number, imaginary | (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 |
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| Spanish | número real, real |
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| Catalan | nombre real, real |
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