Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to a number or series of numbers.
  • adjective Designating number or a number.
  • adjective Expressed in or counted by numbers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging to or denoting number; consisting of or represented by numbers or figures, as in arithmetic, and not by letters, as in algebra: as, a numerical quantity; numerical equations; a numerical majority.
  • The same in number; hence, the same in details; identical.
  • Synonyms See numeral.

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  • adjective of or pertaining to numbers

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or denoting numbers
  • adjective measured or expressed in numbers
  • adjective relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin numerus, number; see number.]

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From numeric + al

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Examples

  • A survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, released Monday, showed in numerical terms why Obama has had so much trouble passing health care reform.

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  • Constants, even something as ‘obvious’ as the Stefan-Boltzmann constant, were something I got introduced to as problems in numerical analysis quite a few years ago.

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  • He expects to draw with it, type in numerical data and be able to plug it into a projector to show at meetings.

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  • In many cases, an overall decline in numerical score encompasses both positive and negative factors, including sustained efforts by journalists themselves to push back against a panoply of restrictions.

    Freedom of the press deteriorates globally 2009

  • Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to occasionally gimmicky lengths, like a two-page soliloquy written entirely in numerical code.

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  • * Insert bugs into the computer programs of the European weather prediction model while accelerating advances in numerical weather prediction at NOAA, leaving no question that NOAA's GFS model is the new and permanent leader in global weather forecast models.

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  • Even in numerical computer simulations and wind-tunnel testing, the presence of turbulence in a viscous fluid, and the scale-dependent nature of turbulence, entail that such representations of the real-world can be misleading.

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  • In places where whites are in numerical competition with these votes, white political parties will also degrade into ethnic interest parties as well.

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  • A mathematical method is one which is carried out on numbers and provides a result in numerical form (the mathematical method or algorithm therefore being merely an abstract concept prescribing how to operate on the numbers) and not patentable.

    Archive 2008-05-08 Venky 2008

  • A mathematical method is one which is carried out on numbers and provides a result in numerical form (the mathematical method or algorithm therefore being merely an abstract concept prescribing how to operate on the numbers) and not patentable.

    The ghost of software patents is back! Venky 2008

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