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noun 
  1. (grammar) A word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
     
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noun 
  1. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
  2. (countable) A symbol for a non-negative integer; a numeral.
  3. (countable) (mathematics) A member of one of several classes: natural numbers,integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions.
The equation <math>e^{i\pi}+1=0</math> includes the most important numbers: 1, 0, <math>\pi</math>, <math>i</math>, and <math>e</math>.
  1. (Followed by a numeral; used attributive) show, Showing the rank of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or &
  1. x2116;). The symbol "
  2. " is also used in this manner.
Horse 5 won the race.
  1. quantity, Quantity.
Any of people can be reading from a given repository at a time
  1. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
  2. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
For his second , he sang "The Moon Shines Bright".
verb 
  1. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.
  1. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
I don"t know how many books are in the library, but they must in the thousands.
adjective 
  1. (comparative of, numb)
     

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