Dictionary.com
definitions

call number

|
SEE MORE SYNONYMS FOR call number ON THESAURUS.COM

noun Library Science.

a number, letter, symbol, or combination of these, indicating the specific location of a work in a library, especially the combination of the classification symbol and the designation for the author.

RELATED CONTENT

Why Veterans Day And The Number 11 Are Tied TogetherNovember 11th is the 315th day of the year (except on leap years). It’s also Veterans Day, a federal holiday honoring all military veterans.
READ MORE
Why Is It Called Soccer?The most popular sport in the world is one in which people chase after a ball and kick it with their feet (and give it an occasional head-butt). In most places where this sport is enjoyed it is referred to in a straightforward fashion: football. No matter whether the language is Spanish (fútbol), French (football), German (fußball), Icelandic (fótbolta), Albanian (futboll), or Dutch (voetbal), you …
READ MORE

RELATED WORDS

pressmark

Nearby words

  1. call letters,
  2. call loan,
  3. call market,
  4. call money,
  5. call names,
  6. call of duty,
  7. call of nature,
  8. call of the wild, the,
  9. call off,
  10. call on

Origin of call number

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for call number

British Dictionary definitions for call number

call number

noun

the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf locationAlso called: call mark
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012