| 单词 | numeral |
| 释义 | numeral (once / 3196 pages) nadj A numeral is a number. When you set an online password, it's safest to use both numerals and letters. The actual symbol that represents a number is technically known as a numeral, although you can use numeral and number interchangeably. You might have a watch with glow-in-the-dark numerals, or use the calculator on your smart phone to add up numerals. You can also use numeral as an adjective: "How many numeral cards are in the deck, and how many face cards?" The Latin root is numerus, or "number." WORD FAMILYnumeral: numerals USAGE EXAMPLESLike a classic military dial, it’s black and the numerals are a bold, luminous white. Wall Street Journal(Dec 20, 2016) Then she blew out the candles on her cake — not one for every year, but three numerals to show her age, 117. Seattle Times(Nov 29, 2016) On others I formed the letters of his name using Roman numerals. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) 1n a symbol used to represent a number he learned to write the numerals before he went to school Syn|Hypo|Hyper number Arabic numeral, Hindu numeral, Hindu-Arabic numeral one of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 Roman numerala symbol in the old Roman notation; I,V,X,L,C,D,M represent 1,5,10,50,100,500,1000 respectively in Arabic notation antilog, antilogarithmthe number of which a given number is the logarithm symbol an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance 2adj of or relating to or denoting numbers a numeral adjective Syn numeric, numerical |
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