numeral
IPA: nˈumɝʌɫ
noun
- 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.
- A representation of a number composed of such symbols.
- (linguistics) A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
- (card games) A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).
adjective
- Of or relating to numbers; numerical.
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Examples of "numeral" in Sentences
- Which brings me actually to my Romans numeral which is 23.
- The numeration is a system of numerals based on Sanskrit phonemes.
- Collective numerals can be combined with approximative numeral suffixes.
- The forming of the ordinal numerals depends on the gender of the numeral.
- The Suzhou numeral system is the only surviving variation of the rod numerals.
- We still call our numeral system Arabic despite the fact that the Arabs do not use it anymore.
- Not to mention the fact that the site's example starts a sentence with a numeral, which is wrong.
- V (KI) n, where the second occurrence of n indicates a numeral, that is, the combinator that represents n.
- Each numeral is outlined by silvered disks of reflecting material, and floodlights play upon the figures to make them show up clearly at a distance.
- I was really excited about the bills, but then realized they looked strange -- on the bottom left corner of one of them the numeral was a '2' rather than a '50', and the upper left numeral was a '1'.
- ThinkProgress attended the event and observed a variant of the original revolutionary war flag, which depicts a roman numeral II within the original thirteen stars, widely distributed throughout Brown party.
- Although the numerals used by the Babylonians were cumbersome (due, per - haps, to the necessity of having to adapt them to the use of the stylus and baked clay media), their place value system in which the “value” of a single digit depended on its position (“place”) within the numeral was the same as that used in the decimal system.
- The value of each card on the numeral line must be _added_ to that of the card on the balcony immediately above it, and you must again transfer from the ground packets to the numeral line any cards whose value corresponds with the addition thus made, it being understood that any card taken from the ground packet must always be placed on the numeral which is exactly underneath the balcony card to whose value it is added.
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