numbers pool
numbers game
numbers racket
numbers | an illegal daily lottery |
| number crunching | performing complex and lengthy numerical calculations |
| correspondence course | a course offered (by mail) by a correspondence school |
reference
consultation | the act of referring or consulting, reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer |
driver
number one wood | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee |
| reference grid | a pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that provide coordinates for locating points on an image or a map |
| number | an item of merchandise offered for sale, she preferred the black nylon number, this sweater is an all-wool number |
| number cruncher | a computer capable of performing a large number of mathematical operations per second |
agreement
correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
parallelism
correspondence | similarity by virtue of corresponding |
symmetry
symmetricalness
correspondence balance | (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation, exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane |
| number | a clothing measurement, a number shoe |
number
figure | the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals, he had a number of chores to do, the number of parameters is small, the figure was about a thousand |
| frame of reference frame | a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning |
counterpart
opposite number
vis-a-vis | a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another |
coordinate system
frame of reference
reference system
reference frame | a system that uses coordinates to establish position |
Bernoulli's law
law of large numbers | (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics |
reference
denotation
extension | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression, the class of objects that an expression refers to, the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos |
| reference | the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to, he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes |
inertial reference frame
inertial frame | a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid |
pagination
folio page number
paging | the system of numbering pages |
| number | the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural), in English the subject and the verb must agree in number |
address computer address
reference | (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored |
reference book
reference reference work
book of facts | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts, he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic |
| reference manual | a manual containing information organized in a summary manner |
| number identification number | a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification, she refused to give them her Social Security number |
bank identification number
BIN
ABA transit number | an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations, the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself |
license number
registration number | the number on the license plate that identifies the car that bears it |
| Social Security number | the number of a particular individual's Social Security account |
phone number
telephone number
number | the number is used in calling a particular telephone, he has an unlisted number |
Numbers
Book of Numbers | the fourth book of the Old Testament, contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt |
| random number generator | a routine designed to yield a random number |
issue
number | one of a series published periodically, she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room |
quotation
quote citation | a passage or expression that is quoted or cited |
| correspondence | communication by the exchange of letters |
index index number
indicant
indicator | a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts, can reveal relative changes as a function of time |
| character reference character reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability, requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
citation cite
acknowledgment credit reference mention quotation | a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage, the student's essay failed to list several important citations, the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book, the article includes mention of similar clinical cases |
| mention reference | a remark that calls attention to something or someone, she made frequent mention of her promotion, there was no mention of it, the speaker made several references to his wife |
numeral
number | a symbol used to represent a number, he learned to write the numerals before he went to school |
numeration system
number system
number representation system
system of numeration | any notation for the representation of numbers |
binary numeration system
pure binary numeration system
binary number system
binary system | a positional system of numeration that uses binary digits and a radix of two |
octal numeration system
octal number system | a positional system of numeration that uses octal digits and a radix of eight |
decimal numeration system
decimal number system
decimal system | a positional system of numeration that uses decimal digits and a base of ten |
duodecimal number system
duodecimal system | a positional system of numeration that uses duodecimal digits and a radix of twelve |
hexadecimal number system
sexadecimal number system
hexadecimal system | a positional system of numeration that uses hexadecimal digits and a radix of sixteen |
call mark
call number
pressmark | a mark consisting of characters written on a book, used to indicate shelf location |
quotation mark
quote
inverted comma | a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else |
| single quote | a single quotation mark |
| scare quote | the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology |