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/numˈɛrəkəl/ /numˈɛrɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Numerical, Numeric adj.

1.

Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; expressed by numbers, and not letters; as, numerical characters; a numerical equation; a numerical statement. Note: Numerical, as opposed to algebraical, is used to denote a value irrespective of its sign; thus, -5 is numerically greater than -3, though algebraically less.

2.

The same in number; hence, identically the same; identical; as, the same numerical body. (Obs.) "Would to God that all my fellow brethren, which with me bemoan the loss of their books,... might rejoice for the recovery thereof, though not the same numerical volumes."

3.

Relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers; as, tests for rating numerical aptitude. Contrasted with verbal.

Synonyms: mathematical.

Numerical equation (Alg.), an equation which has all the quantities except the unknown expressed in numbers; distinguished from literal equation.

Numerical value of an equation or expression, that deduced by substituting numbers for the letters, and reducing.

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Etymology of 'Numerical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Numerical" Quotes from Famous Books

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— Y Gododin - A Poem on the Battle of Cattraeth • Aneurin

... will be necessary to have a sufficient number of umpires to decide hits. An individual receiving a hit is withdrawn at once from the bout, which is decided in favor of the group having the numerical superiority at the end. The fencing salute is ...

— Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry • War Department

... having lived among the Missouri Germans at the time of our civil troubles, the writer is impelled to say a few words in their behalf. He does not hesitate to say that, in his opinion, there was no body of men of equal numerical strength in this country to whom, at that crisis, the Government and country had cause to feel under greater obligation, and justice would require its acknowledgment at this time. But for them the enemies of the Union would have captured ...

— The Abolitionists - Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights • John F. Hume

... 1806, to construct a machine for more accurately and expeditiously printing the numbers and date lines on Bank notes, he at once proceeded to invent the requisite model, which he completed in the course of a month. He subsequently brought it to great perfection the figures in numerical succession being changed by the action of the machine itself,—and it still continues in regular use. Its employment in the Bank of England alone saved the labour of a hundred clerks; but its chief value consisted in its greater accuracy, the perfect legibility of the figures ...

— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles

... the Austrian monarchy, with countless varieties of dialects. Of the elements of the population the Slavic was far the largest, numbering about ten millions, against five million Germans and three million Magyars; but neither numerical strength nor national objects of desire coloured the policy of a family which looked indifferently upon all its subject races as instruments for its own aggrandisement. Milan and the Netherlands had come into ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

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