numeral — meaning in English

English meaning

• hash noun A dish of chopped meat and vegetables (often potatoes) fried together.
• numeral noun 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.
• square noun A four-sided shape with equal sides and right angles.

Senses

numeral is used for these senses in English:

• hash (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
• numeral (linguistics) A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
• square (British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.

hash — full definition

1. noun A dish of chopped meat and vegetables (often potatoes) fried together.
2. noun A confused, jumbled mess.
3. noun The # symbol.
4. noun In computing, the fixed-length code produced by feeding data through a hash function.
5. noun Informal short form of hashish.

numeral — full definition

1. noun 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.
2. noun A representation of a number composed of such symbols.
3. noun A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
4. noun A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1).

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