English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 475 of 488
A person employed to note down numbers, in particular on railways where fleet numbers of wagons were recorded.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Numenius of Apamea, a Neopythagorean philosopher of the 2nd century CE.
A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 or the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
The number obtained by changing the numeric sign of a number. This may or may not be the twos complement, depending on the way numbers are stored.
The conversion of a numeric data type into one that can hold more information. For example, the conversion of a long into a double.
The automated control of machine tools by means of numbers corresponding to motion inputs.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter N contains 24,391 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 488 pages, and you are currently viewing page 475. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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