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whole number [ hohl -nuhm-ber ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈhoʊl ˌnʌm bər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun Mathematics .
Also called counting number . one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
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Origin of whole number First recorded in 1550–60
Words nearby whole number whole-length ,
wholemeal ,
whole megillah ,
whole milk ,
whole note ,
whole number ,
whole numbers ,
whole rest ,
wholesale ,
wholesale price index ,
wholesaling
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Words related to whole number figure ,
statistic ,
sum ,
total ,
cipher ,
integer ,
notation ,
numeral ,
symbol ,
cardinal ,
character ,
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folio ,
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How to use whole number in a sentence It’s two over 10, or one over five, we can write it as a whole number over a whole number .
Last time, you were introduced to the two-player Game of Attrition, where each player started with a whole number of “power points.”
For that, we are measuring the grain weight, the moisture content, the length and width of an ear of corn, and just a whole number of metrics like that surrounding a crop.
You can construct infinitely many different Grassmannians by starting with distinct pairs of whole number s.
For this to be a whole number , either both factors had to be even or both factors had to be odd.
In that photo, Merabet has a big smile that spreads across his whole face and lights up his eyes.
“We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.
If the Israel model ban were directed towards disordered eating, Ravin says she would support it whole-heartedly.
What an amazing thing to be able to listen to any music you want, a whole world of bands.
And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.
You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
But Polavieja started his campaign with the immense advantage of having the whole of the dry season before him.
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
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British Dictionary definitions for whole number
noun
an integer
a natural number
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Scientific definitions for whole number
A member of the set of positive integers and zero.
A positive integer.
An integer.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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