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Definition: Number |
NumberNoun1. The property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand". 2. A concept of quantity derived from zero and units; "every number has a unique position in the sequence". 3. A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did". 4. A numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; "she refused to give them her Social Security number". 5. The number is used in calling a particular telephone; "he has an unlisted number". 6. A symbol used to represent a number; "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school". 7. One of a series published periodically; "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waitingroom". 8. A select company of people; "I hope to become one of their number before I die". 9. (linguistics) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural); "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number". 10. : an item of merchandise offered for sale; "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number". 11. : (informal) a clothing measurement: "a number 13 shoe". Verb1. Add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000". 2. Give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis". 3. Enumerate; "We must number the names of the great mathematicians". 4. Put into a group; "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members". 5. Determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change". 6. Place a limit on the number of. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "number" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | In computer operations, (a) amount of units by count, (b) a magnitude or quantity represented by group of digits.The term quantity is preferred to number in sense (b). (references) |
Computing | Number which unambiguously identifies a transaction or a document. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | The grammatical distinction, common to the majority of the principal families or groups of languages, based on a morphological differentiation according as the speaker intends to designate one object, thing, etc. , or more than one. The form designating "one" is called the "singular", that designating "more than one" is the "plural" Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Number. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Amount, Number. Amount applies to what is thought of in the mass or bulk, as money, wheat, coal. Number is used when we think of the individuals composing the mass, as men, books, horses, vessels. Usage: Quantity, Number. Quantity refers to the how much; number to the how many. "He purchased a large quantity of wheat, corn, apples, lime, and sand, and a number of houses, stores, chairs, and books." It is, therefore, incorrect to say, "There was a large quantity of bicycles in the yard," "He sold a large quantity of books at auction." Usage: Lot, Number. The use of lot for number or many is a colloquialism that should be avoided. "He collected a lot (large number) of books on the subject." "A lot of policemen were gathered there" "I ate lots of oranges while I was in Florida." Usage: Number. Many persons of moderate education regard nouns that do not end with s or es as singular. Even the gifted pen of Addison once slipped so far as to betray him into using the word seraphim, in the singular. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régionss. They are subdivided into 342 arrondissements. Départements are also found in Côte d'Ivoire.
Administrative role
Each département is administered by a Conseil Général elected for six years, and by a préfet appointed by the French government and assisted by one or more sous-préfets based in district centres outside the departmental capital. An administrative reform in 1982 transferred some of the préfet's powers to the president of the Conseil Général.
The capital city of a département bears the title of préfecture. Départements are divided into one to five arrondissements. The capital city of an arrondissement is called the sous-préfecture. The civil servant in charge is the sous-préfet.
The départements sub-divide into communes, governed by municipal councils. France (as of 1999) had 36,779 communes.
Most of the départements have an area of around 4,000-8,000 km² and a population between 250,000 and a million. The largest in terms of area is Gironde (10,000 km²) and the smallest the city of Paris (105 km² excluding the suburbs, now organised in adjacent départements). The most populous is Nord (2,550,000) and the least populous Lozère (74,000).
The départements are numbered: their two-digit numbers appear in postal codes and on car number-plates. Note that there is no number 20, but 2A and 2B instead. Note also that the two-digit code "98" is used by Monaco. Together with the ISO 3166-1 country code FR the numbers form the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes for the metropolitain departments. The overseas departments get two letters for the ISO 3166-2 code.
French régions and départements
Number Département Préfecture
01 Ain Bourg-en-Bresse 02 Aisne Laon 03 Allier Moulins 04 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Digne 05 Hautes-Alpes Gap 06 Alpes-Maritimes Nice 07 Ardèche Privas 08 Ardennes Charleville-Mézières 09 Ariège Foix 10 Aube Troyes 11 Aude Carcassonne 12 Aveyron Rodez 13 Bouches-du-Rhône Marseille 14 Calvados Caen 15 Cantal Aurillac 16 Charente Angoulême 17 Charente-Maritime La Rochelle 18 Cher Bourges 19 Corrèze Tulle 2A Corse-du-Sud Ajaccio 2B Haute-Corse Bastia 21 Côte-d'Or Dijon 22 Côtes-d'Armor Saint-Brieuc 23 Creuse Guéret 24 Dordogne Périgueux 25 Doubs Besançon 26 Drôme Valence 27 Eure Evreux 28 Eure-et-Loir Chartres 29 Finistère Quimper 30 Gard Nîmes 31 Haute-Garonne Toulouse 32 Gers Auch 33 Gironde Bordeaux 34 Hérault Montpellier 35 Ille-et-Vilaine Rennes 36 Indre Châteauroux 37 Indre-et-Loire Tours 38 Isère Grenoble 39 Jura Lons-le-Saunier 40 Landes Mont-de-Marsan 41 Loir-et-Cher Blois 42 Loire Saint-Etienne 43 Haute-Loire Le Puy 44 Loire-Atlantique Nantes 45 Loiret Orléans 46 Lot Cahors 47 Lot-et-Garonne Agen 48 Lozère Mende 49 Maine-et-Loire Angers 50 Manche Saint-Lô 51 Marne Châlons-en-Champagne 52 Haute-Marne Chaumont 53 Mayenne Laval 54 Meurthe-et-Moselle Nancy 55 Meuse Bar-le-Duc 56 Morbihan Vannes 57 Moselle Metz 58 Nièvre Nevers 59 Nord Lille 60 Oise Beauvais 61 Orne Alençon 62 Pas-de-Calais Arras 63 Puy-de-Dôme Clermont-Ferrand 64 Pyrénées-Atlantiques Pau 65 Hautes-Pyrénées Tarbes 66 Pyrénées-Orientales Perpignan 67 Bas-Rhin Strasbourg 68 Haut-Rhin Colmar 69 Rhône Lyon 70 Haute-Saône Vesoul 71 Saône-et-Loire Mâcon 72 Sarthe Le Mans 73 Savoie Chambéry 74 Haute-Savoie Annecy 75 Paris Paris 76 Seine-Maritime Rouen 77 Seine-et-Marne Melun 78 Yvelines Versailles 79 Deux-Sèvres Niort 80 Somme Amiens 81 Tarn Albi 82 Tarn-et-Garonne Montauban 83 Var Toulon 84 Vaucluse Avignon 85 Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon 86 Vienne Poitiers 87 Haute-Vienne Limoges 88 Vosges Epinal 89 Yonne Auxerre 90 Territoire-de-Belfort Belfort 91 Essonne Evry 92 Hauts-de-Seine Nanterre 93 Seine-Saint-Denis Bobigny 94 Val-de-Marne Créteil 95 Val-d'Oise Pontoise 971 Guadeloupe 1 Basse-Terre 972 Martinique 1 Fort-de-France 973 Guyane 1 Cayenne 974 La Réunion 1 Saint-Denis The following are not départments
(see notes):986 Wallis and Futuna 2 Mata-Utu 987 French Polynesia2 Papeete 975 Saint Pierre and Miquelon3 Saint Pierre 976 Mayotte3 Mamoutzou 988 New Caledonia 3 Noumea Notes:
Finally, France maintains control over a number of small islands in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
- The overseas departments are former colonies outside France that now enjoy a status similar to European or metropolitan France. They are part of France and of the EU. Each of them constitutes a région at the same time.
- Beyond these there are also three "overseas territories" (French: territoires d'outre-mer, or TOM) that are part of France but not of the EU. They are: French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna and the French Southern and Antarctic Territories.
- Furthermore there are three separate special status territories (French: collectivites territorialles), also part of France but not of the EU: Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Mayotte and New Caledonia. New Caledonia used to be a TOM.
Former départements
(incomplete list)
- Seine
- Seine-et-Oise
- French départements in the Netherlands
- French départements in Algeria
- 91 Algiers
- 92 Oran
- 93 Constantine
- The 130 départements of the Napoleonic Empire
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In many languages the parts of speech are inflected differently depending on whether they are related to a noun of which there's only one instance (singular), or several (plural). Several languages also have a dual grammatical number that expresses the existence of precisely two instances of the noun, and a collective number that expresses the whole class of the nouns. Other languages (one of which is English) treat dual nouns as simply plural. Some other languages have a trial number for three or a paucal number, expressing few -- but not many -- instances of a noun, which is separate from the singular or plural numbers. Also, some languages have of collective nouns (e.g. "mankind") that are declined either as singular or plural, but semantically express multitude.
In English the following are irregular examples:
And one regular example:
- house (singular), houses (plural)
- mouse (singular), mice (plural)
- I (singular), we (plural)
Non-borrowed English irregular nouns come in several forms:
- encyclopedia (singular), encyclopedias (plural)
Some voice a final fricative when in plural:
These plural are distinct in pronounciation from the possessive. There is also a trend in some areas to regularize some of these nouns.
- knife, knives (f>v)
- mouth, mouths (T>D)
- house, houses, (unique plural, s>z)
Survivors of the Old English weak masculine declination add -en:
Other -en adders are irregular due to different reasons:
- ox, oxen
- auroch, aurochen (archaic)
Some nouns have no plural, or are identical when plural and singular:
- child, children
- eye, eyen (rare)
- cow, kine (rare)
- brother, brethren (or brothers)
Pronouns are irregular precisely because they are so common:
- moose
- sheep
- fish (or fishes)
- species
Some nouns are rather transparently irregular because they undergo the process of umlaut:
- I, we
- you
- he she it, they
man, men foot, feet mouse, mice
There are several different kinds depending in the starting and ending vowel, but generally, they converge on /i/.
Most of these nouns are also umlautized in the other Germanic languages.
The (regular) English noun plural marker, -s, has three variants:
In Slovene more complicated:
- -/s/ next to a voiceless consonant other than a fricative
- -/z/ next to a voiced sound other than a fricative, or a vowel
- -/@z/ or -/Iz/ next to /s/, /z/, /S/, /Z/, /tS/ and /dZ/ (the choice of vowel depending on dialect)
In Hebrew, one can similarly say:
- babarija (old wives tale) (singular), babariji (two old wives tales) (dual), babarije (three old wives tales)
- hiša (house) (singular), hiši (two houses) (dual), tri hiše (three houses) (plural), šest hiš (six houses) (plural)
- miš (mouse) (singular), miši (two or three mice) (dual := plural)
- jaz (I) (singular), midva/midve (we) (dual + [Masculine/Feminine gender), mi/me (we) (plural [Ma/Fe gender])
- vrata (one door) (singular), dvoje vrat (two doors (dual), tri vrata (three doors (plural), [plural noun with different or same form]
- babine (afterbirth period) (archaic meaning) (singular), babini (two afterbirth periods) (dual), babine (three afterbirth periods), [plural noun with different or same form]
- človeštvo (mankind) (singular), človeštvi (two mankind) (dual), človeštva (three mankind), [collective noun with different form]
- This kind of examples are very often used incorrecty (even in published or electronic dictionaries).
In terms of pronunciation, however, the majority of nouns (and adjectives) in French are not actually declined for number. The -s suffix is not actually pronounced unless the next word starts with a vowel (this is called liaison) and thus does not really show anything; the plural article or other word is the real indicator of plurality. However, plurals still exist in French because irregular nouns, such as those that end in -l such as cheval, horse, form plurals in a different way. Cheval is pronounced [S@val], cheveaux is pronounced [S@vo], and this is a real showing of number differences. The same is true for adjectives.
- sefer (book) (singular), sfarim (books) (plural)
- yom (day) (singular), yamim (days) (plural), but yomaim (two days) (dual)
Not only nouns can be declined by number. In many languages, adjectives are declined according to the number of the noun they modify. For example, in French, one may say un arbre vert (a green tree), and des arbres verts ([some] green trees). The word vert (green), in the singular, becomes verts for the plural (unlike English green, which remains green).
In many languages, verbs are conjugated by number as well. Using French as an example again, one says je vois (I see), but nous voyons (we see). The verb voir (to see) in the first person changes from vois in singular, to voyons in plural. In English this occurs in the third person (she runs, they run) but not first or second.
Normally verbs agree with their subject noun in number. But in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit neuter plurals took a singular verb. In English nouns collectively referring to people may take singular verbs, as the committee are meeting; use of this varies by dialect and level of formality.
Other qualifiers may also agree in number. The English article the does not, the demonstratives this, that do, becoming these, those, and the article a, an is omitted or changed to some in the plural. In French and German the definite articles have gender distinctions in the singular but not the plural. In Portuguese the indefinite article um, uma has plural forms uns, umas.
See grammar, mass noun, collective noun.
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The integers consist of the natural numbers (0, 1, 2, ...) and their negatives (-1, -2, -3, ...; -0 is equal to 0 and therefore not included as a separate integer). The set of all integers is usually denoted by Z (or Z in blackboard bold, ), which stands for Zahlen (German for "numbers").
Integers can be added and subtracted, multiplied, and compared. Introducing the negative integers makes it possible to solve all equations of the form
(where a and b are constant natural numbers) for the unknown x; if x is constrained to the natural numbers, only some of these equations are solvable.
- a + x = b
Mathematicians express the fact that all the usual laws of arithmetic are valid in the integers by saying that (Z, +, *) is a commutative ring.
Z is a totally ordered set without upper or lower bound. The ordering of Z is given by
We call an integer positive if it is greater than zero; zero itself is not considered to be positive. The order is compatible with the algebraic operations in the following way:
- ... < -2 < -1 < 0 < 1 < 2 < ...
Like the natural numbers, the integers form a countably infinite set.
- if a < b and c < d, then a + c < b + d
- if a < b and 0 < c, then ac < bc
The integers do not form a field since for instance there is no integer x such that 2x = 1. The smallest field containing the integers is the rational numbers.
An important property of the integers is division with remainder: given two integers a and b with b≠0, we can always find integers q and r such that
and such that 0 <= r < |b| (see absolute value). q is called the quotient and r is called the remainder resulting from division of a by b. The numbers q and r are uniquely determined by a and b. This shows that the greatest common divisor of two integers can always be written as a sum of multiples of the two numbers, and makes the Euclidean algorithm for computing greatest common divisors possible.
- a = b q + r
All of this can be abbreviated by saying that Z is a Euclidean domain. This implies that Z is a principal ideal domain and that whole numbers can be written as products of primes in an essentially unique way. This is the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
The branch of mathematics which studies the integers is called number theory.
An integer is often one of the primitive datatypes in computer languages. Note, however, that a computer can only represent a subset of all mathematical integers, given that computers are finite machines. Integer datatypes are typically implemented using a fixed number of bits, and even variable-length representations eventually run out of storage space when trying to represent especially large numbers. See integer (computer science) for more detailed discussion.
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List of elements by number
See also: periodic table, list of elements by name, list of elements by symbol
No. Name Sym. 1 hydrogen H 2 helium He 3 lithium Li 4 beryllium Be 5 boron B 6 carbon C 7 nitrogen N 8 oxygen O 9 fluorine F 10 neon Ne 11 sodium Na 12 magnesium Mg 13 aluminum Al 14 silicon Si 15 phosphorus P 16 sulfur S 17 chlorine Cl 18 argon Ar 19 potassium K 20 calcium Ca 21 scandium Sc 22 titanium Ti 23 vanadium V 24 chromium Cr 25 manganese Mn 26 iron Fe 27 cobalt Co 28 nickel Ni 29 copper Cu 30 zinc Zn 31 gallium Ga 32 germanium Ge 33 arsenic As 34 selenium Se 35 bromine Br 36 krypton Kr 37 rubidium Rb 38 strontium Sr 39 yttrium Y 40 zirconium Zr 41 niobium Nb 42 molybdenum Mo 43 technetium Tc 44 ruthenium Ru 45 rhodium Rh 46 palladium Pd 47 silver Ag 48 cadmium Cd 49 indium In 50 tin Sn 51 antimony Sb 52 tellurium Te 53 iodine I 54 xenon Xe 55 cesium Cs 56 barium Ba 57 lanthanum La 58 cerium Ce 59 praseodymium Pr 60 neodymium Nd 61 promethium Pm 62 samarium Sm 63 europium Eu 64 gadolinium Gd 65 terbium Tb 66 dysprosium Dy 67 holmium Ho 68 erbium Er 69 thulium Tm 70 ytterbium Yb 71 lutetium Lu 72 hafnium Hf 73 tantalum Ta 74 tungsten W 75 rhenium Re 76 osmium Os 77 iridium Ir 78 platinum Pt 79 gold Au 80 mercury Hg 81 thallium Tl 82 lead Pb 83 bismuth Bi 84 polonium Po 85 astatine At 86 radon Rn 87 francium Fr 88 radium Ra 89 actinium Ac 90 thorium Th 91 protactinium Pa 92 uranium U 93 neptunium Np 94 plutonium Pu 95 americium Am 96 curium Cm 97 berkelium Bk 98 californium Cf 99 einsteinium Es 100 fermium Fm 101 mendelevium Md 102 nobelium No 103 lawrencium Lr 104 rutherfordium Rf 105 dubnium Db 106 seaborgium Sg 107 bohrium Bh 108 hassium Hs 109 meitnerium Mt 110 darmstadtium Ds 111 unununium Uuu 112 ununbium Uub 114 ununquadium Uuq Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of elements by number."
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Japanese names are given in parentheses where they differ from English. The numbers are for Pokémon Gold and Silver.
Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire added another 135 new Pokémon (as well as reusing 67 existing ones, which are marked with ¹ in the following list), but started a new numbering scheme. The Pokemon from these editions are:
- Bulbasaur (Fushigidane)
- Ivysaur (Fushigisou)
- Venusaur (Fushigibana)
- Charmander (Hitokage)
- Charmeleon (Lizardo)
- Charizard (Lizardon)
- Squirtle (Zenigame)
- Wartortle (Kameil)
- Blastoise (Kamex)
- Caterpie
- Metapod (Transel)
- Butterfree
- Weedle (Beedle)
- Kakuna (Cocoon)
- Beedrill (Spear)
- Pidgey (Poppo)
- Pidgeotto (Pidgeon)
- Pidgeot
- Rattata (Koratta)
- Raticate (Ratta)
- Spearow (Onisuzume)
- Fearow (Onidrill)
- Ekans (Arbo)
- Arbok
- Pikachu
- Raichu
- Sandshrew (Sand)
- Sandslash (Sandpan)
- Nidoran-F
- Nidorina
- Nidoqueen
- Nidoran-M
- Nidorino
- Nidoking
- Clefairy (Pippi)
- Clefable (Pixy)
- Vulpix (Rokon)
- Ninetails (Kyukon)
- Jigglypuff (Purin)
- Wigglytuff (Pukurin)
- Zubat
- Golbat
- Oddish (Nazonokusa)
- Gloom (Kusaihana)
- Vileplume (Rafracia)
- Paras
- Parasect
- Venonat (Konpan)
- Venomoth (Morphon)
- Diglett (Digda)
- Dugtrio
- Meowth (Nyase)
- Persian
- Psyduck (Koduck)
- Golduck
- Mankey
- Primeape (Okorizaru)
- Growlithe (Gardie)
- Arcanine (Windie)
- Poliwag (Nyoromo)
- Poliwhirl (Nyorozon)
- Poliwrath (Nyorobon)
- Abra (Casey)
- Kadabra (Yunghelor)
- Alakazam (Fudin)
- Machop (Wanriki)
- Machoke (Goriki)
- Machamp (Kairiki)
- Bellsprout (Madatsubomi)
- Weepinbell (Utsudon)
- Victreebel (Utsubot)
- Tentacool (Menokurage)
- Tentacruel (Dokokurage)
- Geodude (Ishitsubute)
- Graveler (Golon)
- Golem (Golonya)
- Ponyta
- Rapidash (Gallop)
- Slowpoke (Yadon)
- Slowbro (Yadoran)
- Magnemite (Coil)
- Magneton (Reacoil)
- Farfetch'd (Kamonegi)
- Doduo (Dodo)
- Dodrio
- Seel (Pawwow)
- Dewgong (Jugon)
- Grimer (Betbeter)
- Muk (Betbeton)
- Shellder
- Cloyster (Parshen)
- Gastly (Ghos)
- Haunter (Ghost)
- Gengar
- Onix (Iwake)
- Drowzee (Sleep)
- Hypno (Sleeper)
- Krabby (Crab)
- Kingler
- Voltorb (Biriridama)
- Electrode (Marumain)
- Exeggcute (Tamatama)
- Exeggcutor (Nassie)
- Cubone (Karakara)
- Marowak (Garagara)
- Hitmonlee (Sawamurer)
- Hitmonchan (Ebiwarer)
- Lickitung (Beroringa)
- Koffing (Dogaasu)
- Weezing (Matadogas)
- Rhyhorn (Psyhorn)
- Rhydon (Psydon)
- Chansey (Lucky)
- Tangela (Monjara)
- Kangaskhan (Garura)
- Horsea (Tattsu)
- Seadra
- Goldeen (Tosakinto)
- Seaking (Azumaou)
- Staryu (Hitodeman)
- Starmie (Sutaamii)
- Mr. Mime (Barrierd)
- Scyther (Strike)
- Jynx (Rougela)
- Electabuzz (Elebuu)
- Magmar (Boober)
- Pinsir (Kiros)
- Tauros (Kentauros)
- Magikarp (Koiking)
- Gyarados
- Lapras
- Ditto (Metamon)
- Eevee (Iibui)
- Vaporeon (Showers)
- Jolteon (Thunders)
- Flareon (Booster)
- Porygon
- Omanyte (Omnite)
- Omastar (Omster)
- Kabuto
- Kabutops
- Aerodactyl (Ptera)
- Snorlax (Kabigon)
- Articuno (Freezer)
- Zapdos (Thunder)
- Moltres (Fire)
- Dratini (Miniryu)
- Dragonair (pokemon) (Hakuryu)
- Dragonite (Kairyu)
- Mewtwo
- Mew
- Chikorita
- Bayleef
- Meganium
- Cyndaquil (Hinoarashi)
- Quilava (Magumarashi)
- Typhlosion (Bakufuun)
- Totodile (Waninoko)
- Croconaw (Arigeitsu)
- Feraligatr (Oudairu)
- Sentret (Otachi)
- Furret (Ootachi)
- Hoothoot
- Noctowl (Yorunozuko)
- Ledyba
- Ledian
- Spinarak (Itomaru)
- Ariados
- Crobat
- Chinchou (Chonchi)
- Lanturn
- Pichu
- Cleffa (Pii)
- Igglybuff (Pupurin)
- Togepi
- Togetic (Togechikku)
- Natu (Neiti)
- Xatu (Netio)
- Mareep
- Flaaffy (Mokoko)
- Ampharos (Denryuu)
- Bellossum (Kireihana)
- Marill
- Azumarill (Mariruri)
- Sudowoodo (Usokkii)
- Politoed (Nyorotono)
- Hoppip (Hanekko)
- Skiploom (Popokko)
- Jumpluff (Watakko)
- Aipom
- Sunkern (Himanattsu)
- Sunflora (Kimawari)
- Yanma (Yanyanma)
- Wooper (Upaa)
- Quagsire (Nuoo)
- Espeon (Eefi)
- Umbreon (Burakki)
- Murkrow (Yamikarasu)
- Slowking (Yadokingu)
- Misdreavus (Muuma)
- Unown (Annon)
- Wobbuffet (Sounansu)
- Girafarig (Kirinriki)
- Pineco (Kunugidama)
- Forretress (Foretosu)
- Dunsparce (Nokotchi)
- Gligar (Guraiga)
- Steelix (Haganeeru)
- Snubbull
- Granbull
- Qwilfish (Hariisen)
- Scizor (Hassamu)
- Shuckle (Tsubotsubo)
- Heracross
- Sneasel (Nyuura)
- Teddiursa (Himeguma)
- Ursaring (Ringuma)
- Slugma (Magumaggu)
- Magcargo
- Swinub (Urimuu)
- Piloswine (Inomuu)
- Corsola (Saniigo)
- Remoraid (Teppouo)
- Octillery (Okutan)
- Delibird
- Mantine
- Skarmory (Eaamudo)
- Houndour (Derubiru)
- Houndoom (Herugaa)
- Kingdra
- Phanpy (Gomazou)
- Donphan
- Porygon2
- Stantler (Odoshishi)
- Smeargle (Douburu)
- Tyrogue (Barukii)
- Hitmontop (Kapoera)
- Smoochum (Muchuuru)
- Elekid
- Magby (Bubi)
- Miltank
- Blissey (Hapinasu)
- Raikou
- Entei
- Suicune
- Larvitar (Yougirasu)
- Pupitar (Sanagirasu)
- Tyranitar (Bangirasu)
- Lugia
- Ho-Oh
- Celebi
- Treeko (Kimori)
- Grovyle (Juputoru)
- Sceptile (Jukain)
- Torchic (Achamo)
- Combusken (Wakashamo)
- Blaziken (Bashamo)
- Mudkip (Mizugorou)
- Marshtomp (Numakuroo)
- Swampert (Raguraaji)
- Poochyena (Pochiena)
- Mightyena (Guraena)
- Zigzagoon (Jiguzaguma)
- Linoone (Massuguma)
- Wurmple (Kemusso)
- Silcoon (Karasarisu)
- Beautifly (Agehanto)
- Cascoon (Mayurudo)
- Dustox (Dokukeiru)
- Lotad (Hasuboo)
- Lombre (Hasuburero)
- Lodicolo (Runpappa)
- Seedot (Taneboo)
- Nuzleaf (Konohana)
- Shiftry (Daatengu)
- Taillow (Subame)
- Swellow (Oosubame)
- Wingull (Kyamome)
- Pelipper (Peripaa)
- Ralts (Rarutosu)
- Kirlia (Kiruria)
- Gardevoir (Saanaito)
- Surskit (Ametama)
- Masquerain (Amemoosu)
- Shroomish (Kinokoko)
- Breloom (Kinogassa)
- Slakoth (Namakero)
- Vigoroth (Yarukimono)
- Slaking (Kekkingu)
- Abra (Keishii)¹
- Kadabra (Yungreaa)¹
- Alakazam (Fudin)¹
- Nincada (Tsuchinin)
- Ninjask (Tekkanin)
- Shedinja (Nukenin)
- Whismer (Gonyonyo)
- Loudred (Dogoomu)
- Exploud (Bakuongu)
- Makuhita (Makunoshita)
- Hariyama (Hariteyama)
- Goldeen (Tosakinto)¹
- Seaking (Azumaou)¹
- Magikarp (Koiking)¹
- Gyarados (Gayarodosu)¹
- Azurill (Ruriri)
- Marill (Mariru)¹
- Azumarill (Mairuri)¹
- Geodude (Isitsubute)¹
- Graveler (Gouron)¹
- Golem (Gorounya)¹
- Nosepass (Nozupasu)
- Skitty (Eneko)
- Delcatty (Enekororo)
- Zubat (Zubatto)¹
- Golbat (Gorubatto)¹
- Crobat (Kurobattou)¹
- Tentacool (Menokurage)¹
- Tentacruel (Dokukurage)¹
- Sableye (Yamirami)
- Mawile (Kuchiito)
- Aron (Kokodora)
- Lairon (Kodora)
- Aggron (Bosukodora)
- Machop (Wanrikii)¹
- Machoke (Gorikii)¹
- Machamp (Kairikii)¹
- Meditite (Asanan)
- Medicham (Chaaremu)
- Electrike (Rakurai)
- Manectric (Raiboruto)
- Plusle (Purasuru)
- Minun (Mainan)
- Magnemite (Koiru)¹
- Magneton (Reakoiruu)¹
- Voltorb (Biriridama)¹
- Electrode (pokemon) (Marumain)¹
- Volbeat (Barubiito)
- Illumise (Irumiize)
- Oddish (Nazunokusa)¹
- Gloom (Kusaihana)¹
- Vileplume (Rafureshiaa)¹
- Bellossom (Kereihana)¹
- Doduo (Douduo)¹
- Dodrio (Doudariou)¹
- Roselia (Rozeria)
- Gulpin (Gokurin)
- Swalot (Marunoomu)
- Carvahna (Kibania)
- Sharpedo (Samehadaa)
- Wailmer (Hoeruko)
- Wailord (Hoeruoo)
- Numel (Donmeru)
- Camerupt (Bakuuda)
- Slugma (Magumaggu)¹
- Magcargo (Magukarugo)¹
- Torkoal (Kootasu)
- Grimer (Betobetaa)¹
- Muk (Betobeton)¹
- Koffing (Dogaasu)¹
- Weezing (Matadogasu)¹
- Spoink (Banebuu)
- Grumpig (Buupiggu)
- Sandshrew (Sanddo)¹
- Sandslash (Sandopan)¹
- Spinda (Pacchiiru)
- Skarmory (Eaamundo)¹
- Trapinch (Nakkuraa)
- Vibrava (Biburaaba)
- Flygon (Furaigon)
- Cacnea (Sabonea)
- Cacturne (Nokutasu)
- Swablu (Chirutto)
- Altaria (Chirutarisu)
- Zangoose (Zanguusu)
- Seviper (Habuneeku)
- Lunatone (Runatoon)
- Solrock (Sorurokku)
- Barboach (Dojocchi)
- Whiscash (Namazun)
- Corphish (Heigani)
- Crawdaunt (Shizarigaa)
- Baltoy (Yajiron)
- Claydol (Nendooru)
- Lileep (Ririira)
- Cradily (Yureidoru)
- Anorith (Anopusu)
- Armaldo (Aamarudo)
- Igglybuff (Pupurin)¹
- Jigglypuff (Purin)¹
- Wigglytuff (Pukurin)¹
- Feebas (Hinbasu)
- Milotic (Mirokarosu)
- Castform (Powarun)
- Staryu (Hitodemon)¹
- Starmie (Satarumii)¹
- Kelceon (Kakureon)
- Shuppet (Kagebouzu)
- Banette (Jupetta)
- Duskull (Yomawaru)
- Dusclops (Samayooru)
- Tropius (Toropiusu)
- Chimecho (Chiriin)
- Absol (Abusoru)
- Vulpix (Rokon)¹
- Ninetales (Kyuukon)¹
- Pichu (Piichu)¹
- Pikachu (Pikachuu)¹
- Raichu (Raichuu)¹
- Psyduck (Kodakku)¹
- Golduck (Goruddakku)¹
- Wynaut (Soonano)
- Wobbuffet (Soonasu)¹
- Natu (Neitei)¹
- Xatu (Neiteio)¹
- Girafarig (Kirinriki)¹
- Phanpy (Gomazou)¹
- Donphan (Donfan)¹
- Pinsir (Kairosu)¹
- Heracross (Herakurosu)¹
- Rhyhorn (Saihoun)¹
- Rhydon (Saidon)¹
- Snorunt (Yukiwarashi)
- Glaile (Onigoori)
- Spheal (Tamazarashi)
- Sealeo (Todoguraa)
- Walrein (Todozeruga)
- Clamperl (Paaruru)
- Huntail (Hanteeru)
- Gorebyss (Sakurabisu)
- Relicanth (Jiiransu)
- Corsola (Saniigo)¹
- Chinchou (Chonchii)¹
- Lanturn (Rantaan)¹
- Luvdisc (Rabukasu)
- Horsea (Tattsuu)¹
- Seadra (Shiidora)¹
- Kingdra (Kingudora)¹
- Bagon (Tatsubei)
- Shelgon (Komoruu)
- Salamence (Boomanda)
- Beldum (Danbaru)
- Metang (Metangu)
- Metagross (Metagurosu)
- Regirock (Rejirokku)
- Regice (Rejiaisu)
- Registeel (Rejisuchiru)
- Latias (Ratiasu)
- Latios (Ratiosu)
- Kyogre (Kaiooga)
- Groudon (Guraadon)
- Rayquaza (Rekkuuza)
- Jirachi (Jiraachi)
- Deoxys (Deokishisu)
External links
- Pokemon Information
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A natural number is a non-negative integer: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... (Zero is sometimes excluded.) These are the first numbers learned by children, and the easiest to understand. Natural numbers have two main purposes: they can be used for counting ("there are 3 apples on the table), or they can be used for ordering ("this is the 3rd largest city in the state"). The deeper properties of the natural numbers, such as the distribution of prime numbers, are studied in number theory.History of natural numbers and the status of zero
Natural numbers were originally invented to count physical objects. Their first systematic study as things in themselves (separated from physical objects) is usually credited to the Greek philosophers Pythagoras and Archimedes. However, independent studies occurred at around the same time in India, China, and Mesoamerica.
Zero is relatively newborn. A zero digit was used in place-value notation as early as 400 BC by the Babylonians. The Olmec and Maya civilization used zero as a separate number as early as 1st century BC, apparently developed independently, but they did not pass it along to anyone outside of Mesoamerica. The modern concept dates to the Indian mathematician Brahmagupta in 628 AD. It took more than five centuries for European mathematicians to accept zero as a number, and even when they did, it was not counted as a natural number.
In the nineteenth century, a set-theoretical definition of the natural numbers was developed. With this definition, it was more convenient to include zero (corresponding to the empty set) in the naturals. Wikipedia follows this convention, as do set theorists, logicians, and computer scientists. Some other mathematicians, mainly number theorists, prefer to follow the old tradition and exclude zero from the natural numbers.
The term whole number is used informally by some authors for an element of the set of integers, the set of non-negative integers, or the set of positive integers.
Notation
Mathematicians use N or (an N in blackboard bold) to refer to the set of all natural numbers. This set is infinite but countable by definition.
W or is sometimes used to refer to the set of whole numbers, by authors who do not identify it with the integers.
Formal definitions
The precise mathematical definition of the natural numbers has not been easy. The Peano postulates state conditions that any successful definition must satisfy:
If zero is excluded from the natural numbers, every 0 in the Peano postulates should be replaced by a 1.
- There is a natural number 0.
- Every natural number a has a successor, denoted by a + 1.
- There is no natural number whose successor is 0.
- Distinct natural numbers have distinct successors: if a ≠ b, then a + 1 ≠ b + 1
- If a property is possessed by 0 and also by the successor of every natural number which possesses it, then it is possessed by all natural numbers. (This postulate ensures that the proof technique of mathematical induction is valid.)
A standard construction in set theory is to define each natural number as the set of natural numbers less than it, so that 0 = {}, 1 = {0}, 2 = {0,1}, 3 = {0,1,2}... When you see a natural number used as a set, this is typically what is meant. Under this definition, there are exactly n elements in the set n and if m is bigger than n, then n is a subset of m.
Properties
One can inductively define an addition on the natural numbers by requiring a + 0 = a and a + (b + 1) = (a + b) + 1. This turns the natural numbers (N, +) into a commutative monoid with neutral element 0, the so-called free monoid with one generator. This monoid satisfies the cancellation property and can therefore be embedded in a group. The smallest group containing the natural numbers is the integers.
Analogously, a multiplication * can be defined via a * 0 = 0 and a * (b + 1) = ab + a. This turns (N, *) into a commutative monoid; addition and multiplication are compatible which is expressed in the distribution law: a * (b + c) = ab + ac.
Furthermore, one defines a total order on the natural numbers by writing a ≤ b if and only if there exists another natural number c with a + c = b. This order is compatible with the arithmetical operations in the following sense: if a, b and c are natural numbers and a <= b, then a + c ≤ b + c and ac ≤ bc. An important property of the natural numbers is that they are well-ordered: every non-empty set of natural numbers has a smallest element.
While it is in general not possible to divide one natural number by another and get a natural number as result, the procedure of division with remainder is available as a substitute: For any two natural numbers a and b with b ≠ 0 we can find natural numbers q and r such that
The number q is called the quotient and r is called the remainder of division of a by b. The numbers q and r are uniquely determined by a and b. This, the quotient-remainder theorem, is key to several other properties (divisibility), algorithms (such as the Euclidean algorithm), and ideas in number theory.
- a = bq + r and r < b
Generalizations
Two generalizations of natural numbers arise from the two uses: ordinal numbers are used to describe the position of an element in a ordered sequence and cardinal numbers are used to specify the size of a given set.
For finite sequences or finite sets, both of these are of course the same as the natural numbers.
zh-cn:自然数 zh-tw:自然數Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Natural number."
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simple:NumberA number is an abstract entity used to describe quantity. There are different types of numbers. The most familiar numbers are the natural numbers {0, 1, 2, ...} used for counting and denoted by N. If the negative whole numbers are included, one obtains the integers Z. Ratios of integers are called rational numbers or fractions; the set of all rational numbers is denoted by Q. If all infinite and non-repeating decimal expansions are included, one obtains the real numbers R. Those real numbers which are not rational are called irrational numbers. The real numbers are in turn extended to the complex numbers C in order to be able to solve all algebraic equations. The above symbols are often written in blackboard bold, thus:
Numbers should be distinguished from numerals which are symbols used to represent numbers. The notation of numbers as series of digits is discussed in numeral systems.
People like to assign numbers to objects in order to have unique names. There are various numbering schemes for doing so.
Extensions
Newer developments are the hyperreal numbers and the surreal numbers which extend the real numbers by adding infinitesimal and infinitely large numbers. While (most) real numbers have infinitely long expansions to the right of the decimal point, one can also try to allow for infinitely long expansions to the left, leading to the p-adic numbers. For dealing with infinite collections , the natural numbers have been generalized to the ordinal numbers and to the cardinal numbers. The former give the ordering of the collection, the latter its size. (For the finite case, the ordinal and cardinal numbers are equivalent; they diverge in the infinite case.)The arithmetical operations of numbers, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, are generalized in the branch of mathematics called abstract algebra; one obtains the groupss, ringss and fields.
Particular numbers
See: List of numbers, mathematical constants, even and odd numbers, negative and non-negative numbers, small numbers, large numbers, orders of magnitude (numbers)See also
- Numbers in various languages
External links
- Wiktionary article on number
- What's special about this number?
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- Number
- Book_of_Numbers
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A palindromic number is a symmetrical number written in some base a as a1a2a3 ...|... a3a2a1.
All numbers in base 10 with one digit {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9} are palindromic ones. The number of palindromic numbers with two digits is 9:
There are 90 palindromic numbers with three digits:
- {11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99}.
and also 90 palindromic numbers with four digits:
- {101, 111, 121, 131, 141, 151, 161, 171, 181, 191, ..., 909, 919, 929, 939, 949, 959, 969, 979, 989, 999}
so there are 199 palindromic numbers below 104. Below 105 there are 1099 palindromic numbers and for other exponents of 10n we have: 1999,10999,19999,109999,199999,1099999, ... (SIDN A070199). For some types of palindromic numbers these values are listed below in a table. Here 0 is included.
- {1001, 1111, 1221, 1331, 1441, 1551, 1661, 1771, 1881, 1991, ..., 9009, 9119, 9229, 9339, 9449, 9559, 9669, 9779, 9889, 9999},
101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 1010 n natural 9 90 199 1099 1999 10999 19999 109999 199999 n even 5 9 49 89 489 + + + + + n odd 5 10 60 110 610 + + + + + n perfect square 3 6 13 14 19 + + n prime 4 5 20 113 781 5953 n square-free 6 12 67 120 675 + + + + + n non-square-free (μ(n)=0) 3 6 41 78 423 + + + + + n square with prime root 2 3 5 n with an even number of distinct prime factors (μ(n)=1) 2 6 35 56 324 + + + + + n with an odd number of distinct prime factors (μ(n)=-1) 5 7 33 65 352 + + + + + n even with an odd number of prime factors n even with ann odd number of distinct prime factors 1 2 9 21 100 + + + + + n odd with an odd number of prime factors 0 1 12 37 204 + + + + + n odd with an odd number of distinct prime factors 0 0 4 24 139 + + + + + n even squarefree with an even number of distinct prime factors 1 2 11 15 98 + + + + + n odd squarefree with an even number of distinct prime factors 1 4 24 41 226 + + + + + n odd with exactly 2 prime factors 1 4 25 39 205 + + + + + n even with exactly 2 prime factors 2 3 11 64 + + + + + n even with exactly 3 prime factors 1 3 14 24 122 + + + + + n even with exactly 3 distinct prime factors n odd with exactly 3 prime factors 0 1 12 34 173 + + + + + n Carmichael number 0 0 0 0 0 1+ + + + + n for which σ(n) is palindromic 6 10 47 114 688 + + + + + add more Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Palindromic number."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CA BAND NUMB | English | Number of frequency band that contains the cell allocation | Computing |
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Synonyms: NumberSynonyms: act (n), bit (n), figure (n), identification number (n), issue (n), numeral (n), phone number (n), routine (n), telephone number (n), turn (n), add up (v), amount (v), come (v), count (v), enumerate (v), keep down (v), list (v), total (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Take a number. (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg) A number of the inmates, as tough as they acted during the day, would often cry themself to sleep at night (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) It's true I was their number one son but they treated me like number two (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) Number oneis dancing (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) You got the account number, you know how to access it (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe) | |
Lyrics | Billy, Billy don't you lose my number (Don't Lose My Number; performing artist: Phil collins) You've got her number and your hand is on the phone (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC) Before you punch that number (Don't Rock The Jukebox; performing artist: Alan Jackson) But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooo Here, I'll give you my phone number. When you're ("Don't Worry Be Happy"; performing artist: Bobby McFerrin) | |
Clever | You are an engineer if your I.Q. number is bigger than your weight. (references; author: unknown) Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive. (references; author: unknown) The measure of a man is not the number of servants he has, but the number of people he serves. (references; author: unknown) At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying. (references; author: unknown) God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I will live forever. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Silent Number (1974) Ten: The Magic Number (1973) Number 96 (1972) One Is a Lonely Number (1972) Blondie's Number One (1970) | |
Song Titles | Heartaches By The Number (performing artist: Guy Mitchell) Baby Don't Forget My Number (performing artist: Milli Vanilli) Can I Get Your Number (performing artist: No Authority) Don't lose my number (performing artist: Phil collins) Rickki Don't Loose That Number (performing artist: Steely Dan) | |
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 | Shown is an ad from the Washington Post November 6, 1985. The ad talks about fats, vegetables, Vitamin A and C, and fiber. It states the fiber or roughage may help prevent colon cancer. It also shows the 1-800-4-CANCER phone number. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | This is a histological slide stained with H&E of a human herpesvirus (HHV-6), a type of human herpes virus. In this photomicrograph of infected cells, the black specks indicate the location of a radioactive isotope that has been attached to the viral RNA. In this case, a large number of black specks indicate that this lymphocyte has been infected. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | In the early 1950's, there were more than 20,000 cases of polio each year. After polio vaccination began in 1955, cases dropped significantly. By 1960, the number of cases dropped to about 3,000, and by 1979 there were only about 10. Credit: CDC. |  | Bar graph showing increasing number of office visits for treatment of middle ear infections. Credit: CDC. |
 | "2D Cross Section of a 5-Brane" (movie) by Bob Rutkiewicz. From Physics String Theory/M-Theory, a 5-brane equation that has the same number of holes as the full 10-brane. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A or B. |  | Unusual number of islets to chart. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The Gulf Stream by the Coast Survey Based on a series of studies beginning in 1845 The Coast Survey established a number of sections for repeated observations The first systematic oceanographic studies of the Gulf Stream Integrated oceanography, marine geology, and meteorology into these cruises. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Washington Monument and Smithsonian Institution as seen from Potomac River. In: "Protection from Lightning" by Alexander McAdie. 1894. Library Call Number TH 9057.M3 1894. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | "View of Benicia from the West", frontispiece. In: Reports of Explorations and Surveys .... Vol. 5. Commonly known as Pacific Railroad Surveys. Call Number F593 .U58. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | "The Emperors' Conclave". In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume II, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 240. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "True Story Number One" by Kelly Abbott Commentary: "They don't sell Nikes." | "Cellphone number pad" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Cellphone number pad." |
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 | Dialing a telephone number from a rotary dial telephone. | | Dialing a telephone number from a rotary dial telephone. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together. |
David Hume | And what is the greatest number? Number one. |
Desiderius Erasmus | Fools are without number. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. |
Janeane Garofalo | Vox Number One and I can aid and abet a life well led*. |
Jean Kerr | Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. |
Jeremy Bentham | The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. |
Oscar Hammerstein | The number of people that will not go to a show they don't want to see is unlimited. |
Voltaire | It is with books as with men; a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Hence it comes to pass, that we seldom find any number of men live any time together in this state. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1992 | The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | But with the development of industry the proletariat not only increases in number; it becomes concentrated in greater masses, its strength grows, and it feels that strength more. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Each Delegate may be accompanied by advisers, who shall not exceed two in number for each item on the agenda of the meeting. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Already we use together a large number of islands; more may well be entrusted to our joint care in the near future. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | It would hold the very number for comfort |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Here Number Three put in her oar. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that thirty-five percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke down |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | At one end of the room, in a recess, were a number of barrels, piled one upon another, containing bundles of official documents |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The old portress who had been his servant was among the number. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The Vances lived in number seven |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Who hath descried the number of the traitors |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | One officer put down the license number and raised the hood |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | When I had finished my work, I desired the Emperor to let a troop of his best horse, twentyfour in number, come and exercise upon this plain |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | In the large towns and cities, where civilization especially prevails, the number of those who own a shelter is a very small fraction of the whole |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This is your peak flow number. (references) | |
Hence, a number of subtypes of obesity exist. (references) | ||
Respiratory problems can have a number of causes. (references) | ||
Business | Bowling centers are slowly growing in number. (references) | |
This is an issue for a number of dietary products. (references) | ||
Agents are protected by a number of laws in France. (references) | ||
Children | Armenia | Despite social programs, the number of street children increased. (references) |
Portugal | Each year the number of students enrolled in preschool has increased. (references) | |
Burma | Because of landmine detonations, there are a large number of amputees. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Sanchez visited a number of countries before he returned. (references) |
Turkey | Only a fraction of the total number of evacuees has returned. (references) | |
Moldova | National and city governments subsidize a number of newspapers. (references) | |
Discrimination | Korea | Ethnic minorities are very small in number and face both legal and societal discrimination. (references) |
Peru | However, discrimination against women, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, and racial and ethnic minorities persists, although progress is being made in a number of areas. (references) | |
Bhutan | Bhutanese human rights groups active outside the country claim that ethnic Nepalese actually make up approximately 35 percent of the country's population and that the Government underreports their number. (references) | |
Economic History | Monaco | Number of births (1997): 713. (references) |
Barbados | Any number of shares may be issued. (references) | |
Cameroon | Cameroon has a number of independent newspapers. (references) | |
Human Rights | Macedonia | The NLA killed a number of security force members. (references) |
Namibia | FAA soldiers killed a number of civilians during the year. (references) | |
Bolivia | The BNP arrested a number of Bolivian and Peruvian suspects. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Chile | CONADI offices were occupied on a number of occasions. (references) |
Guatemala | A disproportional number of indigenous girls do not attend school. (references) | |
Colombia | Members of indigenous communities continued to be victims of all sides in the internal conflict, and a number of them were killed. (references) | |
Minorities | India | Several human rights groups, however, believe that this number is too low. (references) |
Ethiopia | Ethnic clashes during the year resulted in a number of deaths and injuries. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Two Muslims were killed, and a number of buildings and vehicles were destroyed. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | The SPLA has taken a number of prisoners over the years. (references) |
Russia | Hazing in the armed forces resulted in a number of deaths. (references) | |
IRELAND | The law also limits the number of hours which children under age 18 may work. (references) | |
Political Rights | Vietnam | Women hold a number of important government positions. (references) |
Bhutan | Each National Assembly constituency consists of a number of villages. (references) | |
Malaysia | Ballots are marked with a serial number that could be matched against a voter's name. (references) | |
Trade | Syria | Medications also require a batch number. (references) |
Bolivia | The purchase of BHN has caused a number of problems for Citibank. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Shipping marks should show consignee order number and port of entry. (references) | |
Travel | Zambia | Lusaka has a number of good restaurants. (references) |
Chad | Business Services: N'Djamena has a limited number of business services. (references) | |
Philippines | The Philippines has the largest number of educational institutions in Asia. (references) | |
Women | Israel and the occupied territories | Women's rights advocates consider this number inadequate. (references) |
Yemen | Several ministries have a number of female directors general. (references) | |
Rwanda | Since the 1994 genocide, a number of women's groups have emerged. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Russia | It is not a number used for real salaries. (references) |
Finland | It was the longest strike in a number of years. (references) | |
Nepal | Of that number, 1.7 million children work full time. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Hunt | Mr. Leader, your Republican critics claim on a number of measures you were bottling them up in order to placate Democratic interest groups. Let me get your response on a few specifics. |
David Berkowitz | Not a lot. Once in a while some people come up. I have a number of friends from the area who come by and visit. |
House Minority Whip David Bonior | Well, I think we needed to resolve this before we got here this week, obviously, and this was in the making for a number of weeks prior to the decision that was made here. I'm glad that it's in the past, I'm glad it's behind us. |
Joan Lunden | I am a little nuts, but that's OK. I have a very physical life. And we did try for a number of years through the in vitro process. |
Nancy Grace | Interesting, because you're sending a letter to a private individual, but they've also faxed it. And don't tell me they can't trace where that fax came from, private or public. You can just trot on down to the Kinko's and get the fax number. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Sunday, the Tony awards, first on PBS, then on CBS. This will be the stage I make my big singing opening number. |
Rudy Giuliani | Some of the margins of victory were larger than I thought they would be. You know in a number of the races that at least I was looking at, it seemed to me they were maybe two, three points more than I thought they would be. |
Rush Limbaugh | It's bad enough we pay people who aren't working, and that that number is growing and growing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | Croix as now settled and what is usually called the Bay of Fundy lie a number of valuable islands. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Providence in His goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before it. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Our commerce, our wealth, and the extent of our territories have increased in corresponding proportions, and the number of independent communities associated in our Federal Union has since that time nearly doubled. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Every effort will be made to enlist the required number of young men. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Kissinger, Ambassador Lodge, and I, personally, have met on a number of occasions with representatives of the Soviet Government to enlist their assistance in getting meaningful negotiations started. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I am proposing a number of actions to energize our nuclear power program. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | From that base a number of thorough investigations of specific topics continued. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Since the turn of the century, the number of democracies in the world has grown fourfold. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Something tells me a number of taxpayers may take us up on this one. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Today there are large number of vacancies in the federal courts. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Number" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "Number" is used about 49,258 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.95% | 49,234 | 171 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.02% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.02% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49,258 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "number" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Number | Last name | 300 | 24,362 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "number". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Heman | N/A | Biblical | In great number |
| Sephar | N/A | Biblical | Number |
| Zalmonah | N/A | Biblical | The sound of the number |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
| |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Number Nine Visual Technology Corp |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "number": a back number ♦ a cushy number ♦ a great number ♦ a great number of ♦ a large number of ♦ a number of ♦ aba transit number ♦ Abbe's number ♦ Abstract number ♦ abundant number ♦ account holder number ♦ account number ♦ account number extended ♦ additional number ♦ aeration number ♦ algebraic number ♦ animal identification number ♦ Apocalyptic number ♦ Applicate number ♦ arithmetical complement of a number ♦ atomic number ♦ atomic number 1 ♦ atomic number 10 ♦ atomic number 100 ♦ atomic number 101 ♦ atomic number 102 ♦ atomic number 103 ♦ atomic number 104 ♦ atomic number 105 ♦ atomic number 106 ♦ atomic number 107 ♦ atomic number 11 ♦ atomic number 12 ♦ atomic number 13 ♦ atomic number 14 ♦ atomic number 15 ♦ atomic number 16 ♦ atomic number 17 ♦ atomic number 18 ♦ atomic number 19 ♦ atomic number 2 ♦ atomic number 20 ♦ atomic number 21 ♦ atomic number 22 ♦ atomic number 23 ♦ atomic number 24 ♦ atomic number 25 ♦ atomic number 26 ♦ atomic number 27 ♦ atomic number 28 ♦ atomic number 29 ♦ atomic number 3 ♦ atomic number 30 ♦ atomic number 31 ♦ atomic number 32 ♦ atomic number 33 ♦ atomic number 34 ♦ atomic number 35 ♦ atomic number 37 ♦ atomic number 38 ♦ atomic number 39 ♦ atomic number 4 ♦ atomic number 40 ♦ atomic number 41 ♦ atomic number 42 ♦ atomic number 43 ♦ atomic number 44 ♦ atomic number 45 ♦ atomic number 46 ♦ atomic number 47 ♦ atomic number 48 ♦ atomic number 49 ♦ atomic number 5 ♦ atomic number 50 ♦ atomic number 51 ♦ atomic number 52 ♦ atomic number 53 ♦ atomic number 54 ♦ atomic number 55 ♦ atomic number 56 ♦ atomic number 57 ♦ atomic number 58 ♦ atomic number 59 ♦ atomic number 6 ♦ atomic number 60 ♦ atomic number 61 ♦ atomic number 62 ♦ atomic number 63 ♦ atomic number 64 ♦ atomic number 65 ♦ atomic number 66 ♦ atomic number 67 ♦ atomic number 68 ♦ atomic number 69 ♦ atomic number 7 ♦ atomic number 70 ♦ atomic number 71 ♦ atomic number 72 ♦ atomic number 73 ♦ atomic number 74 ♦ atomic number 75. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "number": number-coded, number-cruncher, number-crunchers, number-crunching, number-date, number-density, number-dependent, number-five, number-one, number-one-with-the-people, number-packed, number-plate, number-plates, number-sequence, number-seven, number-shufflers, number-site, number-taking, number-theoretic, number-two, number-unobtainable, number-wise. | |
Ending with "number": job-number, part-number, small-number. | |
Containing "number": double-the-number-you-first-thought-of, when-you've-had-a-number-one-the-only-way-is-down. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "number"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | nommer (numeral), aantal (amount). (various references) | |
Albanian | numër (blighter, figure, intake, issue, numeral, rate, size, tally). (various references) | |
Arabic | عِدّة (numerous), رقم (record), كمية (amount, deal, magnitude, measure, quantity, size, volume), مقدار (magnitude, measure, proportion, quantity, volume), قدر (afford, amount, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, be able to, be capable of, believe, can, consider, cost, count, deal, degree, esteem, estimate, evaluate, guess, lot, magnitude, manage to, measure, predestination, predestine, predetermine, presume, prize, proportion, quantity, rate, size, suppose, think, treasure, value, volume), حسب (calculate, cast, cipher, compute, deem, figure, from, gather, in his element, on, pursuant to, rank, reason, reckon, score, tally, tell), عدد من جريدة, عدد (digit, enumerate, figure, grist, list, numbering, numeral, recount), عد حضر (count, tick off), عد (calculate, commit oneself, conceive, count, count smb., enumerate, enumeration, tally, tell, think out), العدد (issue), إعتبر (account, adjudge, assume, consider, count, deem, externalize, figure, hold the view, look at, make, ponder, rate, reckon, see, set, treat), أحصى (compute, count, numerate, register), رقم مسلسل, رقم (figure, page, punctuate). (various references) | |
Breton | niverenn. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | включвам (add in, comprise, cover, engage in, engraft, gear, include, incorporate, insert, involve, latch, make, occlude, plug in, subsume, take in, throw in), преброяваме се, брой, броя (count, reckon), артикул (article, item, lot), момиче (bint, gal, girl, lass, muslin, piece, pigeon, wench), наброявам, номер (event, feature, fetch, hoax, item, jig, performance, registration number, size, waggery), номерирам (numerate), преброявам (count, figure up, reckon), отнасям (blow away, carry away, relate, snatch, subsume, take away, take off, walk away with, wash away, whiffle, whip off), сума (amount, count, figure, heaps of, power, quantum, sum, tot, total), възлизам на (add up to, aggregate, come to, make, run to), гадже (fellow, mash), количество (amount, deal, measure, percentage, quantity, quantum, volume), цифра (character, cipher, digit, figure, numeral), число (numeral, tale), разчитаме се, сбор (aggregate, amount, assembly, dues, fee, fete, lump, muster, tot, total, troop, whole), смятам (adjudge, calculate, cipher, consider, count, deem, feel, figure, find, guess, judge, opine, reckon, regard, see, set down, take, ween, work), ограничавам по брой. (various references) | |
Catalan | número. (various references) | |
Chinese | 號碼 , 號 (cry, day of a month, name of a ship, roar), 編號 (serial number), 碼 (a weight, pile, stack, yard), 数字 (back-number, digit, numbers, Numeral, Numeric, Numerical), 數目 (amount), 數字 (amount, digit, digital, figure, numeral), 數 (figure, frequently, repeatedly, several, to calculate, to count), 次 (next, nth, order, second, sequence). (various references) | |
Cornish | nyver. (various references) | |
Croatian | broj. (various references) | |
Czech | èíslo (card, cough drop, figure, issue, item, screw). (various references) | |
Danish | nummer (numeral), tal (amount, numbers), antal (amount). (various references) | |
Dutch | tal (amount), nummer (act, certificate, cipher, digit, diploma, document, figure, numeral), getal (amount), aantal (amount, number of). (various references) | |
Esperanto | numero (numeral). (various references) | |
Estonian | number. (various references) | |
Faeroese | nummar (numeral), tal (amount, cipher, digit, figure, numeral). (various references) | |
Farsi | نمره دادن به , نمره (Mark, Score), عدد (Digit, Figure, Head, Piece, Tot), رقم (Brand, Character, Digit, Figure, Item, Sort, Symbol, Type), شماره (Issue, Numeral), شمردن (Aim, Count, Enumerate, Figure, Include, Rate, Reckon, Repute), بالغ شدن بر (Exceed, Mount, Soar). (various references) | |
Finnish | numero (act, cipher, copy, digit, figure, issue, item, number plate, numeral, size). (various references) | |
French | numéro (numeral), nombre. (various references) | |
French Canadian | numéro. (various references) | |
Frisian | nûmer (numeral), tal (amount), oantal (amount). (various references) | |
Galician | número. (various references) | |
German | Nummer (character, issue, item, nos., numbers, numeral, screw, shag, size, spot, trick, turn), Zahl (amount, cipher, digit, figure, numeral, strength), Anzahl (amount, count, strength), Numerus, numerieren (assign a number, paginate, to number), ausgabe (costs, destination, disbursement, distribution, edition, expenditure, expense, expenses, giving out, issuance, issue, issue desk, issuing, issuing counter, issuing office, outlay, output, printout, readout, release, serving counter, spending, version). (various references) | |
Greek | αριθμός (figure). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | nimewo. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתכונת (format, lay out, layout, measure, measurement, proportion, scale, scheme, standard, tale), מספר (cypher, digit, figure, quantity, sum), מנין (from where, quorum, score, vote, whence), למספר (numerate), למנות (count, enumerate, numerate), לספור (account, count, score, tally, tick off), לספרר, שם מספר (numeral), ספרה (cypher, digit, figure, numeral). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szám (amount, cipher, current issue, current number, digit, figure, least said soonest mended, numeral, numero, size), sorszám (ordinal number), kiválasztott (chosen, elect, picked, picked men, selected), bizgentyű (doodad), csinos lány (dolly), csinos nő (dolly, lovely, lulu, mink), csoport (band, bank, battery, bunch, clump, cluster, colony, company, covey, faction, gang, group, knot, platoon, posse, rating, team, troop, wing), cucc (bag and baggage, clobber, doings, duds, gear, goods and chattels, plunder), egyén (beggar, bulldozer, individual, person, pervert), fazon (fashion, skin), fellépés (air, appearance, countenance), fonalszám, házszám (numero), izé (doodad, gizmo, jig, stuff, thingumajig, thingumebob, thingummy, whatyamacallit), alak (bloke, build, chappie, chappy, configuration, cove, crock, cuss, dog, egg, figure, flasher, form, format, guy, missing link, roister-doister, shape, show-off, sot, stature, structure), jó csaj (dolly), szerkó, kiválasztott személy, létszám (cadre personnel, headcount, manpower, strength), műsorszám (ad-lib, repertoire piece), marihuánás cigaretta (joint, reefer), numerus, ruci, ruha (clothes, costume, dress, duds, garb, garment, habiliments, habit, pressure garment, pressure suit, raiment, rig, togs, toilet, weed), személy (busybody, character, creature, expletive, guarantor, gusher, head, malcontent, monger, mushroom, neurotic, person, persona, snake, stuffed shirt, thing, third party, third person), szerelés (gear, rig), jó bőr (dolly, turtle). (various references) | |
Icelandic | nr, númer, húsnúmer (number of the house). (various references) | |
Indonesian | nomor, mengangkakan (grade, mark), cacah (amount, cut up), angka-angka (figures, notation, statistics), angka (digit, numeral, point, rate, score, scorn). (various references) | |
Irish | uimhir. (various references) | |
Italian | numero (act, amount, dial, digit, figure, numeral, size, turn), numerare (enumerate, list, numerate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 数 (figure). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たか (amount, amount of money, falcon, hawk, polyvalence, quantity, volume), すう (figure, grass cutting, hay, to breathe in, to smoke, to suck), ノンブル , ナンバー , ばんごう (eternity, series of digits), かず (face, figure, lower illustration), ごう (a little, actions committed in a former life, air-raid shelter, be proud, Buddhist karma, dugout, fine feathers, go, issue, long ages, moat, threat, trench, writing brush), けんすう (number of houses, one ken in length or breadth). (various references) | |
Korean | 수 (numbers, Numerical, Sue). (various references) | |
Luganda | ennamba (the number). (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | nummer. (various references) | |
Malagasy | isa. (various references) | |
Manx | scuitch (lash, switch, whisk, whisk of tail), meer (bait, bit, bite, bite of food, coin, element, extract, fleck of dust, item, par, part, passage, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, segment), figgyr (figure), earrooaghey (numbering), earroo (census, census of things, figure, foliation), dreeaght, dreaght, cur earroo er, coontey (compute, count, description, list, portraiture, score), cooid vooar. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nummer (amount). (various references) | |
Occitan | numerò, nombre. (various references) | |
Papiamen | number (numeral), konta (amount). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umbernay.(various references) | |
Polish | numer (numeral). (various references) | |
Portuguese | número (amount, cipher, copy, digit, figure, installment, instalment, item, numeral, quantity, size). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | número. (various references) | |
Romanian | numeral (numeral). (various references) | |
Russian | сумма (amount, amount of, amounts, sum, tender, tot, total), считать (account, be of the opinion, consider, consider [], count, date, deem, deeming, esteem, guess, look on, rate, reckon, regard, regarded, think, think of as, think to be), число (date), числительное, количество (amount, amt amount, forkful, quantities, quantity, quantum), выпуск (edition, eduction, emission, escape, exhaust, installment, instalment, issue, outlet, output, scavenging, turn out), нумеровать, номер (gauge, issue, logistical number, num, size), насчитывать, причислить. (various references) | |
Scottish | nuimhir, cunnt (count), àireamh (numbering, numeration, quantity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | numerisati (numerate), numera, tačka (act, center, centre, clause, count, dot, fix, full stop, item, period, pip, point), odbrojati (count off), iznositi (amount, take out, total, wear out), izbrojati (count), cifra (cipher, digit, numeral), brojka (cipher, figure, numeral), broj (cipher, digit, numeral, size). (various references) | |
Somali | lambar. (various references) | |
Spanish | número (act, amount, circulation, copy, figure, issue, numeral, prime, size, turn), cifra (cipher, cypher, digit, figure, numeral, quantity). (various references) | |
Sranan | nomru (numeral). (various references) | |
Swahili | nambari (numbers, numeral), hesabu (account, numeral). (various references) | |
Swedish | nummer (copy, event, figure, issue, item, numeral, routine, size, spot, turn), antal (amount, counts, frequency, head, strength), tal (articulation, conversation, discourse, figure, numbers, peroration, speaking, speech, speeches, sum, talk). (various references) | |
Tagalog | numero, number, bílang (numeral). (various references) | |
Tahitian | n•mera, n…mera. (various references) | |
Thai | ใส่ตัวเลข, นับจำนวน (enumerate, numerate), ตัวเลข (figure, numeral), จำนวน. (various references) | |
Turkish | numara (act, affectation, no, pretence, pretense, size, stunt, trick), numaralamak (code, count off, numerate), hesaplamak (calculate, check out, cipher, compute, count up, discount, figure out, foot, foot up, reckon, work out), hoş şey (nice thing, nuts), içermek (comprise, contain, cover, embody, encapsulate, enclose, implicate, imply, incapsulate, inclose, include, span, store, subsume), katılmak (accompany, adhere, affiliate, ally, ally oneself, attach oneself to, attend, be a party to, be in the swim, be out of breath, be out of the swim, be superadded, chip in, club, club together, come into, contract in, contribute, enter, enter into, go in for, go with, identify oneself with, join, join in, mingle, partake, participate, play ball, precondition, put in an appearance, range, share, share in, sit for, sit in, stand in, subscribe, subscribe to, take a share in, take part, team up, weigh in with), katmak (add, adjoin, affiliate, ally, annex, append, include, incorporate, inosculate, integrate, interpolate, join, load, mingle, mix, put in, run in, superadd, tack, tinge, weave), adet (bleeding, consuetude, convention, courses, custom, element, fashion, flow, fragment, groove, habit, item, menses, menstruation, mounthly courses, mounthly periods, numeral, particle, period, praxis, routine, sum, the usual thing, total, tradition, usage, use, wont), miktar (amount, deal, measure, portion, proportion, quanta, quantitative, quantity, quantum, sum, supply), yaşında olmak, rakam (figure, numeral), sayı (basket, button, cage, conversion, count, figure, goal, issue, numeral, numerary, point, quantity, score), sayı saymak (count, number off), saymak (account, assume, calculate, class, consider, count, count down, count in, count off, count up, deem, enumerate, honor, honour, number off, number to, rank, rate, reckon, reckon as, reckon for, regard, regard as, repute, respect, suppose, tally, think, treat as), tip (bakhshish, baksheesh, bugger, cast, codger, cuss, customer, cut, guy, ilk, job, Johnny, norm, perk, perquisite, person, pourboire, sort, specimen, style, tip, type, vintage), müzik parçası. (various references) | |
Turkmen | nomerleme, san (amount, score), mukdar (amount, quantity). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | випуск (edition, eduction, output, out-turn, print, publication, series), перераховувати (catalogue, recalculate, recast), показник (indication, indicator), порядковий номер, призначати (administer, administrate, affect, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, attach, consign, constitute, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, order, put, tell off), безліч (a lot of, abundance, army, array, bag, bagful, barrel, bushel, cumulus, dozens, host, infinite, lashings, legion, lots of, multitude, numbers, ocean, oodles, orb, orgy, pack, plenty, reams, rout, ruck, scores, shoal, shower, ton, variety, vast, wealth, wilderness, world), зараховувати (muster, score up), зразок (archetype, assay, cast, example, exemplar, exponent, model, nonesuch, norm, paragon, pattern, sample, sampler, specimen, swatch), налічувати (muster), наркотик (dope, drug, opiate, soporific), номер програми, певна кількість (cast), нумерувати, сума (quantum, sum, total), велика кількість (armful, array, deal, majuscule, many, much, numbers, scads, superfluity), взірець (cast, exemplar, fugleman, ideal, nonesuch, norm, sampling), коефіцієнт (coefficient, modulus, multiplier), кількість (amount, numerosity, quantity), цифра (cipher, cypher, digit, figure, numeral, numeric), число (date, numeric, tale, tally), рахувати (compute, count, date, reckon), ряд (batch, catena, file, line, order, range, rank, row, series, string), складати (accumulate, aggregate, amount, bolt, compose, congregate, make, make up, redact, tot, wage), становити (amount, be), номер видання. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhóm (bevy, coterie, crowd, galaxy, groupment, plump), số nhiều, số đám, bọn (band, boodle, clique, confraternity, covey, parcel, ring, tribe, troop). (various references) | |
Welsh | nifer, talm (quantity, space, while), rhifyn, rhifo (count, recken), rhifedi (numeral), rhif (numeral), maint (quantity, size). (various references) | |
Zulu | inombolo (numeral), inamba (amount). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ita. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | numerus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 5, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ephrwta auton ti soi onoma kai apekriqh legwn legewn onoma moi oti polloi esmen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et interrogabat eum quod tibi nomen est et dicit ei Legio nomen mihi est quia multi sumus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða axsede he hine hwæt is þin name. Ða cwæð he min name is legio. for þanwe manege synde. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Jhesus axide hym, What is thi name? And he seith to hym, A legioun is my name; for we ben many. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he axed him: what is thy name? And he answered sayinge: my name is Legion for we are many. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Jesus said, What is your name? And he made answer, My name is Legion, because there are a great number of us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 5, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Jesus nangutana kaniya, "Kinsa may imong ngalan?" Ug siya mitubag nga nag-ingon, "Ang akong ngalan mao si Legion, kay daghan man kami." |
| Chinese | 耶 穌 問 他 說 、 你 名 叫 甚 麼 ． 回 答 說 、 我 名 叫 群 、 因 為 我 們 多 的 緣 故 。 |
| Croatian | Isus ga nato upita: "Kako ti je ime?" Kaže mu: "Legija mi je ime! Ima nas mnogo!" |
| Danish | Og han spurgte ham: "Hvad er dit Navn?" Og han siger til ham: "Legion er mit Navn; thi vi ere mange." |
| Dutch | En Hij vraagde hem: Welke is uw naam? En hij antwoordde, zeggende: Mijn naam is Legio; want wij zijn velen. |
| Finnish | Ja Jeesus kysyi siltä: "Mikä on nimesi?" Niin se sanoi hänelle: "Legio on minun nimeni, sillä meitä on monta". |
| French | Et, il lui demanda: Quel est ton nom? Légion est mon nom, lui répondit-il, car nous sommes plusieurs. |
| Gaelic | Agus dh` fhaighnich e dheth: De t-ainm tha ort? Is thuirt e ris: Se Legion m` ainm, oir is moran sinn. |
| German | Und er fragte ihn: Wie heißt du? Und er antwortete und sprach: Legion heiße ich; denn wir sind unser viele. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè sa a, Jezi mande li: -Ki jan ou rele? Li reponn li: -Yo rele m' Rejiman, paske nou anpil. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu Yesus bertanya kepadanya, "Siapakah namamu?" Orang itu menjawab, "Nama saya 'Legiun' --sebab kami ini banyak sekali!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka bertanyalah Ia kepadanya, "Siapakah namamu?" Maka sahutnya, "Legion, itulah namaku, karena kami banyak." |
| Maori | Na ka ui ia ki a ia, Ko wai tou ingoa? Ka whakahokia e tera, ka mea, Ko Rihiona toku ingoa: he tokomaha hoki matou. |
| Norwegian | Og han spurte ham: Hvad er ditt navn? Og han sa til ham: Legion er mitt navn; for vi er mange. |
| Portuguese | E perguntou-lhe: Qual é o teu nome? Respondeu-lhe ele: Legião é o meu nome, porque somos muitos. |
| Rumanian | ,,Care-yi este numele?`` l -a kntrebat Isus. ,,Numele meu este ,Legiune,` a rqspuns el, ,,pentrucq skntem mulyi.`` |
| Shuar | Takui Jesus Tímiayi "¿Ame Náarmesha yait?" Tutai niisha ayak "Untsurí ásar wikia Untsurí-suntar tu anaikiamuitjai" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Basi, Yesu akamwuliza, "Jina lako nani?" Naye akajibu, "Jina langu ni `Jeshi`, maana sisi tu wengi." |
| Swedish | Då frågade han honom: "Vad är ditt namn?" Han svarade honom: "Legion är mitt namn, ty vi äro många." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "number": numberable, numbered, numberer, numberers, numbering, numberless, numbers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "number": outnumber, prenumber, renumber. (additional references) | |
Words containing "number": outnumbered, outnumbering, outnumbers, prenumbered, prenumbering, prenumbers, renumbered, renumbering, renumbers, unnumbered. (additional references) | |
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"Number" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anumber, Gumburd, humber, mumber, Naber, nambiar, Nebmare, Nemba, Nemzet, Neuber, Ngumba, Ngumbe, niber, Nkuebe, nobber, nobeer, nombre, Noubir, nube, nuber, Nubern, nubuk, numbat, numbe, numbr, numbre, numer, nummer, numnber, Nunberg, Nurburg, Nvumba, unmer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "number" (pronounced nu"mber) |
| 5 | n u" m b er | outnumber. |
| 4 | -u" m b er | encumber, Cumber, lumber, slumber. |
| 3 | -m b er | Ember, amber, bedchamber, camber, chamber, clamber, cucumber, dismember, limber, member, misremember, nonmember, remember, somber, timber, timbre. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-m-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: brume, rumen, umber. | |
-2 letters: berm, bren, burn, menu, mure, neum, numb, rube, rune, unbe. | |
-3 letters: ben, bum, bun, bur, emu, ern, men, mun, neb, nub, reb, rem, rub, rue, rum, run, urb, urn. | |
-4 letters: be, em, en, er, me, mu, ne, nu, re, um, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-m-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: numbers. | |
+2 letters: brunizem, embruing, encumber, incumber, numbered, numberer, penumbra, renumber, umbering, unlimber. | |
+3 letters: brunizems, bumpering, cumbering, embruting, encumbers, incumbers, lumbering, lumberman, lumbermen, numberers, numbering, numerable, outnumber, penumbrae, penumbral, penumbras, prenumber, recumbent, renumbers, submarine, underbrim, unlimbers. | |
+4 letters: burdensome, cumberbund, cummerbund, encumbered, enumerable, incumbered, lambrequin, lebensraum, membranous, mensurable, numberable, numberless, outnumbers, prenumbers, procumbent, recumbency, renumbered, replumbing, scrubwomen, slumbering, submanager, submarined, submariner, submarines, submerging, submersing, submersion, tambourine, underbrims, unlimbered, unnumbered, unscramble. | |
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