The Collaborative International Dictionary
Numeric \Nu*mer"ic\, Numerical \Nu*mer"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. num['e]rique. See Number, n.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
Usage examples of "numerical value".
Two is the value of the Moon, to which both he and I are subject, and any names having a total numerical value which would reduce by progressive additions to two, such as eleven or twenty-nine or thirty-eight or forty-seven, would give us some affinity, but that they actually add up to the same compound number shows that we are attuned to a very remarkable degree.
His partial merger of general relativity and quantum mechanics could be used to find the numerical value of a black hole's entropy, but offered no insight into its microscopic meaning.
The position of a particular animal, say the scorpion or the bat or the insect, is fixed in genetic space by the numerical value of its nine genes.
Enoch Root told him that in Pontifex, as in bridge, each card in the deck has a numerical value: clubs 1-13, diamonds 14-26, hearts 27-39, spades 40-52.
We also have gematria, which you probably heard about, assigning numerical value to each letter of the alphabet.
The fancy hotels and the museums and the parks are much the same the world over-but the slums are honest criteria even though a traveller can't assign a numerical value.
The fancy hotels and the museums and the parks are much the same the world over - but the slums are honest criteria even though a traveler can't assign a numerical value.
A numerical value is assigned to each event in the sample space, called its 'probability', and this corresponds to how likely that event is to happen.
Now, that's six digits, and why does a secretary have to know the numerical value of pi?
Once you knew where each one started and stopped, the numerical value of a binary string was a unique number to within a reflection (should you read the number from left to right, or right to left?
That this card is disputed by various Tarot experts, and is given a numerical value of 0 rather than 21 by the wisest, indicates the confusion in all Unordnung periods.
As you can see, the current numerical value is extremely small, but as you can also see, it is dependent on the value of t minus t1, squared.
An alternative might be sought in the numerical value of the Greek equivalent of ``grey city'' or it may transpire that some city has a peculiar right to be designated as grey.