number

Quantity.

Any number of people can be reading from a given repository at a time.

There are, in addition to all the red socks, a number that don’t suit me either.

An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

Zero, one, −1, 2.5, and pi are all numbers.

A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.

The number 8 is usually made with a single stroke.

The former FBI director James Comey has said it did not occur to him that that the numbers 8647 – which he spotted spelled out in seashells on a beach, and posted on social media – could be interpreted as a call to assassinate the president, as many supporters of Donald Trump have claimed.

An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.

The equation e#123;i#92;pi#125;#43;1#61;0 includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, #92;pi, i, and e.

Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.

Horse number 5 won the race.

To total or count; to amount to.

I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.

Do they number in the hundreds, do they number in the thousands? Do they number in the tens of thousand?

To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.

The old man knew that his days were numbered.

THE DAYS OF ENGLAND NOT “NUMBERED.” REPLY TO SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON.

To count; to determine the quantity of.

The king ordered that all his subjects be numbered.

Who can number all the stars and who can count the desert sands?

To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.

“Public Health Service Numbered Publications – A Catalog, 1950-1962” and contains those numbered publications issued during the period 1963-64.

To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.

Shelley numbered off the group into two teams for the baseball game.

I counted them and numbered them off, and I found about three hundred and seventy or three hundred and seventy-five.

Something that numbs.