Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being numerous; numerousness; large number.
- noun Harmonious flow; poetical rhythm; harmony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The state of being numerous; numerousness.
- noun obsolete Rhythm; harmony; flow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of being
numerous - noun countable The extent to which something is numerous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large number
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Examples
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During his decade in politics, Mr. Spitzer spoke in paragraphs and peppered his speech with words like "numerosity," "academician" and "outcome-determinative."
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My gut feeling is that he would not be able to round up more than a dozen or so and that class action would fail for lack of numerosity.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ladies Night Case and the Rules for Class Action Lawsuits: 2007
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However, narrowing the definition would make it much harder perhaps impossible for Hollender to identify the relevant members and get a large enough number to satisfy the “numerosity” requirements.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ladies Night Case and the Rules for Class Action Lawsuits: 2007
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It would be a much smaller class, but probably still satisfy numerosity, right?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ladies Night Case and the Rules for Class Action Lawsuits: 2007
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It would be a much smaller class, but probably still satisfy numerosity, right?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ladies Night Case and the Rules for Class Action Lawsuits: 2007
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As I said in my first post, the research shows that there are no differences in primary math skills counting, arithmetic, subitizing, ordinality, numerosity, etc. across cultures, and these abilities appear to have very little genetic influence.
Invincible Summers Chris 2005
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To judge of the perfection of debtors by the numerosity of their creditors is the readiest way for entering into the mysteries of practical arithmetic.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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To judge of the perfection of debtors by the numerosity of their creditors is the readiest way for entering into the mysteries of practical arithmetic.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This superfluousness (unless we apply Voltaire's saying, "_Le superflu, chose bien nécessaire_" to dictionaries also) is the result, we suppose, of the rivalry of publishers, who have done their best to persuade the public that numerosity is the chief excellence in works of this kind, and that whoever buys their particular quarto may be sure of an honest pennyworth and of owning a thousand or two more words than his less judicious neighbors.
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Prince come back she had an impression of all the place as higher and wider and more appointed for great moments; with its dome of lustres lifted, its ascents and descents more majestic, its marble tiers more vividly overhung, its numerosity of royalties, foreign and domestic, more unprecedented, its symbolism of
The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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