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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
numeral
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Arabic numeral
roman numeral
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
roman
▪ Such ions take the name of the element followed by a Roman numeral in parentheses indicating the oxidation number of the ion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The date was written in Roman numerals -- MCMLXXXII.
▪ The European numbers 1, 2, 3 and so on, are based on Arabic numerals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A deputy stands guard under the black numeral 2.
▪ Alternatively, we may represent each numeral by a matrix of 1s and 0s.
▪ Each image, or numeral, then requires an input containing 28 digits made up of only 0s and 1s.
▪ Lloyd rapped his fist on a badly-stripped fake pine door with a metal numeral 1 nailed to it.
▪ Only an ideal, fully trained network with absolute zero error will yield the exact value of the desired numeral output.
▪ Such ions take the name of the element followed by a Roman numeral in parentheses indicating the oxidation number of the ion.
▪ Until a child has achieved that understanding, a numeral is just a shape with no real meaning.
▪ You could present inputs of numeral images with the expected outputs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Numeral

Numeral \Nu"mer*al\, a. [L. numeralis, fr. numerus number: cf. F. num['e]ral. See Number, n.]

  1. Of or pertaining to number; consisting of number or numerals.

    A long train of numeral progressions.
    --Locke.

  2. Expressing number; representing number; as, numeral letters or characters, as X or 10 for ten.

Numeral

Numeral \Nu"mer*al\, n.

  1. A figure or character used to express a number; as, the Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, etc.; the Roman numerals, I, V, X, L, etc.

  2. A word expressing a number.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
numeral

1520s, "word expressing a number," from Middle French numéral (late 15c.), from Late Latin numeralis "of or belonging to a number," from Latin numerus "a number" (see number (n.)). Meaning "figure standing for a number" is from 1680s. As an adjective, "expressing number," from 1520s.

Wiktionary
numeral

a. Of or relating to numbers; numerical. n. 1 A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 and the Roman numerals I, V, X, L. 2 (context linguistics English) A word representing a number. 3 (context card games English) A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).

WordNet
numeral
  1. adj. of or relating to or denoting numbers; "a numeral adjective"; "numerical analysis" [syn: numerical, numeric]

  2. n. a symbol used to represent a number; "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school" [syn: number]

Wikipedia
Numeral (linguistics)

In linguistics, a numeral is a member of a word class (or sometimes even a part of speech) designating numbers, such as the English word 'two' and the compound 'seventy-seven'.

Numeral

Numeral may refer to:

  • Numeral system used in mathematics
  • Numeral (linguistics), a class of words denoting numbers (e.g. thirty-three in English)
  • Numerical digit, the glyphs used to represent numerals
  • Hindu–Arabic numeral system, a positional decimal numeral system developed between the first and fifth centuries by Indian mathematicians, widely used in modern life

Usage examples of "numeral".

This resemblance may be exemplified by the numerals, one, two, four, seven, eight, twenty.

Toroca found this easy, and soon Jawn had taught him the names of the numerals from one to ten.

George flashed the numerals several times before tucking the device, hardly larger though somewhat thicker than a postage stamp, into a side pocket of his coat.

Its face was an antique white analogue clock with spider-thin baroque hands and the hours marked off in Roman numerals.

Transliterate them into Roman alphabet spellings and Arabic numerals, and somewhere, somebody would spot each numerical significance, as Hubert Penrose and Mort Tranter and she had done with the table of elements.

Personal Correspondence, Household Accounts, Department Accounts, Tax all that sort of thing seemed normal and as it should be, but it was a different story as soon as I got into files labelled with Roman numerals and small groups of numbers, and three boldly labelled AFI1, 2, and 3.

Indian astronomers realized that they could record the number of counters in each column of the counting board using their Brahmi numerals.

Europe by the great mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, the Arabic numerals and algebra that revolutionized our way of thought?

After a general introduction, however, the writing seemed to become more technical and heavily footnoted, sprinkled with Roman numeral references, foreign phrases, capitalized abbreviations, and words like Masoretic and Septuagintal.

Yet, strange as it may appear, the days and numerals in this division are to be read from right to left, while all the other numeral series of these four plates are to be read as usual, from left to right.

Running back along the line of numerals in the middle division of Plates 42 and 41, the day column with which it is connected is found at the left margin of Plate 38.

Here the red numeral is wanting, but a comparison of the numbers on the different plates and the order of the series make it evident that it should be XIII.

Benny regarded the yellow dots on the wall and saw that they did form numerals, that the rightmost was constantly changing, but he could make no sense of the information.

Whenever a gate is recharging, the numerals will appear, counting down the time to usability in minutes and seconds, and for the Earth gate in hours as well.

English Philological Society great interest was excited by a paper on Etruscan Numerals, by the Rev.