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whole number

[ hohl nuhm-ber ]

noun

, Mathematics.
  1. Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
  2. (loosely) integer ( def 1 ).


whole number

noun

  1. an integer
  2. a natural number
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whole number

  1. A member of the set of positive integers and zero.
  2. A positive integer.
  3. An integer.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of whole number1

First recorded in 1550–60
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Example Sentences

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 numbers.

For this to be a whole number, either both factors had to be even or both factors had to be odd.

“Those two weeks that you wait it out are consequential for a whole number of people,” he said.

Classify each leukocyte seen, and calculate what percentage each variety is of the whole number classified.

The whole number in day schools, therefore, is probably not less than 1,200.

Their whole number was two hundred, who descended upon Ardis, which is the top of Mount Armon.

The whole number of stadia from Physcus to the Mæander, along the road to Ephesus, is 1180 stadia.

It must be within the mark to state that at least 15,000 persons—a fourth of the whole number—perished in those dreadful days.

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