nume

a. [ L. numerabilis. See Number, v. t. ] Capable of being numbered or counted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. skill with numbers and mathematics; -- the skill with numbers analogous to literacy, the skill of reading. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. numeralis, fr. numerus number: cf. F. numéral. See Number, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to number; consisting of number or numerals. [ 1913 Webster ]

A long train of numeral progressions. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expressing number; representing number; as, numeral letters or characters, as X or 10 for ten. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A word expressing a number. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to number; in number; numerically. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. numerarius: cf. F. numéraire. ] Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body. [ 1913 Webster ]

A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Numerated p. pr. & vb. n. Numerating ] [ L. numeratus, p. p. of numerare to count. See Number, v. ] (Arith.) To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. numeratio a counting out: cf. F. numération. ] 1. The act or art of numbering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method. Davies & Peck. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ For convenience in reading, numbers are usually separated by commas into periods of three figures each, as 1, 155, 465; in continental Europe, periods are used for a similar division. According to what is called the “English” system, the billion is a million of millions, a trillion a million of billions, and each higher denomination is a million times the one preceding. According to the system of the French and other Continental nations and also that of the United States, the billion is a thousand millions, and each higher denomination is a thousand times the preceding. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]