even number
noun
a number that leaves no remainder when divided by 2.
even numbers
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pluralof even number.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Since this is my first— and last— list of 2024, I’m defiantly going with even numbers, although there might be one or three or five reasons I might change my mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
Gilbert's habit of regularly eating hard-boiled fruit sweets during matches, his tendency to use only even numbers when speaking and his unorthodox sleeping patterns provide fun talking points.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023
Not only is the cardinality of natural and even numbers the same, the trick with mapping two sets can be applied to other examples as well.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2023
Of course, not all even numbers are eban, but enough are to make a good sequence.”
From New York Times ● May 21, 2023
Every day, the little gray-furred beasts would scurry tormentingly through the branches that hung outside the nursery windows, which threw all Penelope’s attempts to teach odd and even numbers into chaos.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
