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.

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 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.

a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification; "she refused to give them her Social Security number"

a symbol used to represent a number; "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school"

a multitude composed of units

A numeric valued data object. The gawk implementation uses double precision floating point to represent numbers.

Emanation related to the Pythagorean Decad. Evolution following a numerical sequence.

A numeric-valued data object. Modern awk implementations use double-precision floating-point to represent numbers. Very old awk implementations use single-precision floating-point.

A numerical character.

A number is an abstract entity that represents a count or measurement. A symbol for a number is called a numeral. In common usage, numerals are often used as labels (e.g. road, telephone and house numbering), as indicators of order (serial numbers), and as codes (ISBN).