numerals

Noun

numeral (plural numerals)

1. A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 or the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
2. A representation of a number composed of such symbols.
   • Compare the numeral for the product with the original decimal numeral.1966, Robert Lee Morton, Modern Mathematics Through Discovery, page 97
3. A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
   • We use the term numeral for linguistic expressions and number for meanings. For example, five is a numeral expressing the number "5" - and fifteen hundred and one thousand five hundred are different numerals expressing the same number, "1,500".2002, Laurie Bauer, Rodney Huddleston, “Lexical word-formation”, in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 1715
4. A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).
   • Jacks, queens, and kings are not numerals.

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