Word.ws English Dictionary

surreal numbers

surreal numbers is the plural of surreal number.

Meaning of surreal number

Noun

surreal number (plural surreal numbers)

  1. Any element of a certain field equivalent to the real numbers augmented with infinite and infinitesimal numbers (respectively larger and smaller (in absolute value) than any positive real number).
    • Conway's construction of surreal numbers relies on the use of transfinite induction.

Questions about surreal numbers

What is surreal numbers the plural of?
Surreal numbers is the plural of surreal number.

Words near surreal numbers in the dictionary

  1. surreached
  2. surreaches
  3. surreaching
  4. surreal
  5. surreal number
  6. surreal numbers
  7. surrealia
  8. surrealish
  9. surrealism
  10. surrealisms
  11. surrealist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: surreal numbers (page history and authors); surreal number (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: “surreal numbers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/surreal_numbers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.