Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A prefix, esp. in the metric system, indicating ten thousand, ten thousand times.

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  • prefix innumerable: myriad, myriapod
  • prefix obsolete In the metric systems of units, multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 10,000. Symbol: my

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek μυρίος (murios, "ten thousand").

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