Word.ws English Dictionary

bignums

bignums is the plural of bignum.

Meaning of bignum

Noun

bignum (plural bignums)

  1. A number whose digits of precision are limited only by available memory (as opposed to the usual fixed-point arithmetic).
  2. (broadly, slang) A very large number.
    • Then there's the membership fee. A serious bignum.2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 198

Questions about bignums

What is bignums the plural of?
Bignums is the plural of bignum.

Words near bignums in the dictionary

  1. Bignor
  2. bignose
  3. bignoses
  4. bignou
  5. bignum
  6. bignums
  7. bigoli
  8. bigon
  9. Bigoness
  10. bigoniac
  11. bigonial

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bignums (page history and authors); bignum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bignums.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bignums. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.