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reals

reals is the plural of real.

Meaning of real

Noun (1)

real (plural reals)

  1. A commodity; see realty.
  2. One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
  3. A real number.
    • There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions...2007, Mark Bridges, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 11
  4. (obsolete) A realist.
    • Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

Noun (2)

real (plural reals or reales)

  1. Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
  2. A coin worth one real.

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Phrases with reals

Questions about reals

What is reals the plural of?
Reals is the plural of real.

Words near reals in the dictionary

  1. realpolitik
  2. realpolitikal
  3. realpolitiker
  4. realpolitikers
  5. realpolitiks
  6. reals
  7. realschule
  8. realsome
  9. realspace
  10. realter
  11. realteration

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