natural number

noun

a positive integer or zero.

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Origin of natural number

First recorded in 1755–65

Words nearby natural number

natural language, natural law, natural levee, natural logarithm, natural mutation, natural number, natural parent, natural person, natural philosophy, natural rate of unemployment, natural realism

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British Dictionary definitions for natural number

natural number

noun

any of the numbers 0,1,2,3,4,… that can be used to count the members of a set; the non-negative integers

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Scientific definitions for natural number

natural number

A positive integer.