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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
numerical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
numerical order
▪ The dogs are given numbers, and stand in numerical order while the judge looks at them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
data
▪ The location-factor approach focused on large numerical data sets and on finding statistically significant relationships between variables.
▪ By its very nature, political risk assessment must be subjective, i.e. not based on numerical data.
▪ The growing interest in and use of abinitio quantum mechanics requires the manipulation of masses of numerical data.
▪ Is awe-inspiring in her ability to evaluate verbal communications and numerical data.
▪ Comparisons are simpler to make when numerical data is presented in diagrammatic form and conclusions are easier to draw from it.
▪ When numerical data is used for making generalizations about the world this is usually based on limited information or samples.
example
▪ It is obvious to ask whether these results are not simply those obtained in this particular numerical example.
▪ Let us look at a numerical example, giving Dept.
▪ The text is punctuated throughout by numerical examples, most usually based on matrices of small order.
▪ However, we can partially demonstrate its validity by means of two simple numerical examples.
▪ To illustrate these results, consider a simple numerical example.
▪ To show how these adjustments are made, consider a simple numerical example.
▪ This may be illustrated by a simple numerical example.
order
▪ The system may as well do it, and present the operator with each applicant within the vacancy in turn in numerical order.
▪ Imagine trying to rearrange a table consisting of 100 salespeople into alphabetical order by names or into numerical order by sales amounts.
▪ Starting in numerical order, each plane would climb to fifteen thousand feet and empty its sack.
▪ The forms must be actioned in ascending numerical order on the request serial number.
▪ The list will be presented in descending numerical order of identifier.
▪ Copies of bills or invoices are usually filed in numerical order.
▪ These lists are sorted in numerical order and delimited by square brackets.
superiority
▪ With their numerical superiority, they should have shown more enterprise.
▪ Each time, the opponents possessed a numerical superiority in men, frequently a very large one.
▪ The loss of numerical superiority by protestants would result in the collapse of their statelet.
value
▪ The numerical values cited here are for the case n-50.
▪ Valencies sometimes have the same numerical values as oxidation numbers - but not always.
▪ Active verbs, numerical values, abbreviations and punctuation are to be avoided.
▪ Many different patterns of foggy and clear days could produce the same numerical values for the transition probabilities in the example.
▪ Within the net, these numbers are represented as bit patterns and their numerical values have no significance.
▪ Most commonly, the graphic distance was simply not in direct proportion to the numerical values represented.
▪ Oxoanions are given the numerical value of the oxidation number of the element which combines with oxygen in the ion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Democrats still held a numerical advantage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An increase in women's numerical representation is therefore given a biological or cultural, rather than an egalitarian, justification.
▪ It is a story of courage and of improvisation that made a nonsense of the enemy's numerical and material superiority.
▪ One possible solution would be to represent the relative influences of each analyser as a set of numerical weightings.
▪ The boys outpaced the girls in mechanical, verbal, and abstract reasoning, space relations, and numerical ability.
▪ The drive towards numerical and managerial performance indicators has already been mentioned.
▪ The mystery of Plato's Atlantis has been solved by recognition of this same numerical confusion.
▪ The values of these parameters permit characterization of the curves, and enable numerical comparisons to be made between samples.
▪ This is not the case, as can be seen from Table 1, even in terms of simple numerical trend.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Numerical

Numeric \Nu*mer"ic\, Numerical \Nu*mer"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. num['e]rique. See Number, n.]

  1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; expressed by numbers, and not letters; as, numerical characters; a numerical equation; a numerical statement.

    Note: Numerical, as opposed to algebraical, is used to denote a value irrespective of its sign; thus, -5 is numerically greater than -3, though algebraically less.

  2. The same in number; hence, identically the same; identical; as, the same numerical body. [Obs.]
    --South.

    Would to God that all my fellow brethren, which with me bemoan the loss of their books, . . . might rejoice for the recovery thereof, though not the same numerical volumes.
    --Fuller.

  3. relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers; as, tests for rating numerical aptitude. Contrasted with verbal.

    Syn: mathematical.

    Numerical equation (Alg.), an equation which has all the quantities except the unknown expressed in numbers; -- distinguished from literal equation.

    Numerical value of an equation or expression, that deduced by substituting numbers for the letters, and reducing.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
numerical

1620s, from Latin numerus "a number" (see number (n.)) + suffix -ical. Perhaps by influence of French numérique "of a number or numbers." Related: Numerically.

Wiktionary
numerical

a. of or pertaining to numbers

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WordNet
numerical

  1. adj. measured or expressed in numbers; "numerical value"; "the numerical superiority of the enemy" [syn: numeric]

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

  3. designated by or expressed in numbers; "numerical symbols"; "a very simple numeric code"; "numerical equations" [syn: numeric]

  4. relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers; "tests for rating numerical aptitude"; "a mathematical whiz" [syn: mathematical] [ant: verbal]

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Wikipedia
Numerical

Numerical may refer to:

  • Number
  • Numerical digit
  • Numerical analysis
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Usage examples of "numerical".

Granted, then, that there exist, apart from things, a unity absolute and a decad absolute in other words, that the Intellectual beings, together with their characteristic essence have also their order, Henads, Dyads, Triads, what is the nature of these numerical entities and how does it come into being?

A number of ingenious experiments enabled him to determine with increasing exactitude the numerical relation between work and heat, as well as to establish the absolute constancy of the relation.

She had already fastened them together into facing folia, or individual pages, so that they were in proper numerical order.

Alessi, with a numerical lock and little purple LCDs that glowed through black glass: Fooler loops were built into its sides and the handle housed a semi-AI whose sole job was to inform airport scanners that the contents were covered by diplomatic protocol.

The only thing else he lets you know about the passage is that it contains 30 words and 124 Hebrew letters, and that when the numerical value of these ancient words and letters is added up by a process known as gematria the sum total of the passage equals 5,449, which is the height of the Great Pyramid in pyramid inches.

We also have gematria, which you probably heard about, assigning numerical value to each letter of the alphabet.

They deploy air assets in waves of overwhelming numbers--you know how they are, they always have to have numerical superiority.

As Barre saw that those present were greatly struck, by this numerical inaccuracy, he tried to turn their thoughts in another direction by asking the superior if it were true that she knew no Latin.

All change is revealed in the light of immediate intuition, not as a numerical series of states, but a rhythm of phases, each of which constitutes an indivisible act, in such a way that each change has its natural inner articulations, forbidding us to break it up according to arbitrary laws, like a homogeneous length.

When he had become proficient at this, he was taught how to calculate the numerical values of the alphabet, first on individual letters and afterward on permutated letters, spelled-out letters, and names of numbers.

But beyond these changes in detailed numerical properties, the overall physical content of the theory remains the same, so long as the coupling constant stays in the perturbative realm.

During the period in which ministers were proposing their important measures, some minor topics were introduced, in which they found themselves unable to resist the numerical force of their opponents.

Constitution was a revocable compact between independent states, never mind that the North had consistently used its numerical majority to force through Congress tariffs that worked only to ruin the South.

This shows that duality--or any other such numerical form--is no relation produced either by scission or association.

Many times when the glyph, either of a god or an animal, is shown with no accompanying picture, the reason seems to be that there is no room for the latter on account of the numerical calculations which take up all the space.