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ARABIC NUMERAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Arabic numeral mean?
• ARABIC NUMERAL (noun)
The noun ARABIC NUMERAL has 1 sense:
1. one of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0
Familiarity information: ARABIC NUMERAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Arabic numeral; Hindu-Arabic numeral; Hindu numeral
Hypernyms ("Arabic numeral" is a kind of...):
number; numeral (a symbol used to represent a number)
Antonym:
Roman numeral (a symbol in the old Roman notation; I,V,X,L,C,D,M represent 1,5,10,50,100,500,1000 respectively in Arabic notation)
Context examples
In this system, the FIGO stage is represented by an Roman numeral, followed by the modified WHO score depicted as an Arabic numeral and separated by a colon (e.g., Stage II:4, Stage IV:9).
(FIGO Staging System and Modified World Health Organization [WHO] Prognostic Scoring System for Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms, NCI Thesaurus)
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