Definition of Number

Number

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.

A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.

A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.

Numerousness; multitude.

The state or quality of being numerable or countable.

Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.

That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.

The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.

The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.

To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.

To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.

To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.

To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.

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Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert Einstein

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.
Steve Jobs

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Khalil Gibran

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle