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luku — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • account noun A written or spoken description of events; a report.
  • chapter noun One of the main divisions of a book or other written work.
  • cipher noun A system for turning readable text into a secret, scrambled form; more loosely, a secret code.
  • figure noun A number or numerical value.
  • headcount noun The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
  • number noun A value used to count, measure, or label something.
  • section noun A distinct part of something larger, such as a document, area, or object.

Senses

luku is used for these senses in English:

  • account (archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
  • chapter A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
  • cipher A numeric character.
  • figure A numeral.
  • headcount The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
  • number (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
  • number (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
  • number (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.

account — full definition

  1. noun A written or spoken description of events; a report.
  2. noun A record of money held at a bank, or of a person's access to a service.
  3. verb To give a satisfactory explanation for something (usually with "for").

chapter — full definition

  1. noun One of the main divisions of a book or other written work.
  2. noun A local branch of a larger organisation, club, or society.
  3. noun A distinct period or stage in someone's life or in a story of events.

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