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1. a numeral or group of numerals. 2. the sum, total, count, or aggregate of a collection of units, or the like: A number of people were hurt in the accident. The number of homeless children in the city has risen alarmingly. 3. a word or symbol, or a combination of words or symbols, used in counting or in noting a total. 4. the particular numeral assigned to an object so as to designate its place in a series: house number; license number. 5. one of a series of things distinguished by or marked with numerals. 6. a certain collection, company, or quantity not precisely reckoned, but usually considerable or large: I've gone there a number of times. 7. the full count of a collection or company. 8. a collection or company. 9. a quantity of individuals: Their number was more than 20,000. 10. numbers. a considerable amount or quantity; many: Numbers flocked to the city to see the parade. metrical feet; verse. musical periods, measures, or groups of notes. numbers pool (def 1). Informal. the figures representing the actual cost, expense, profit, etc.: We won't make a decision until we see the numbers. Obsolete, arithmetic. 11. quantity as composed of units: to increase the number of eligible voters. 12. numerical strength or superiority; complement: The garrison is not up to its full number. 13. a tune or arrangement for singing or dancing. 14. a single or distinct performance within a show, as a song or dance: The comic routine followed the dance number. 15. a single part of a program made up of a group of similar parts: For her third number she played a nocturne. 16. any of a collection of poems or songs. 17. a distinct part of an extended musical work or one in a sequence of compositions. 18. conformity in music or verse to regular beat or measure; rhythm. 19. a single part of a book published in a series of parts. 20. a single issue of a periodical: several numbers of a popular magazine. 21. a code of numerals, letters, or a combination of these assigned to a particular telephone: Did you call the right number? 22. Grammar. a category of noun, verb, or adjective inflection found in many languages, as English, Latin, and Arabic, used to indicate whether a word has one or more than one referent. There may be a two-way distinction in number, as between singular and plural, three-way, as between singular, dual, and plural, or more. 23. Informal. person; individual: the attractive number standing at the bar. 24. Informal. an article of merchandise, especially of wearing apparel, offered for sale: Put those leather numbers in the display window. 25. mathematics regarded as a science, a basic concept, and a mode of thought: Number is the basis of science.