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NUMBERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does numbering mean?
• NUMBERING (noun)
The noun NUMBERING has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: NUMBERING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A numbered list
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
enumeration; numbering
Hypernyms ("numbering" is a kind of...):
list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))
Derivation:
number (enumerate)
number (give numbers to)
Context examples
A location identifier based on clockface numbering or anatomic subregion.
(Clockface or Region, NCI Thesaurus)
A single character in a numbering system.
(Digit, NCI Thesaurus)
Form of Vitamin K containing a double-bond in all of its multiple isoprenoid side chains, usually numbering between 2 -13.
(Menaquinone, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
Legumes are the most numerous, numbering almost 1,380 species.
(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)
No news from Jonathan, and Lucy seems to be growing weaker, whilst her mother's hours are numbering to a close.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The numbering of the phenyl ring starts with 1' (""one prime"") at the carbon that is connected to the pyran ring, and follows along the phenyl ring with C-2', -3', -4', -5', and -6'.
(Dietary Flavonoid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)
It opened clear on my comprehension that Helen Burns was numbering her last days in this world, and that she was going to be taken to the region of spirits, if such region there were.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. Rivers came up as, having seen the classes, now numbering sixty girls, file out before me, and locked the door, I stood with the key in my hand, exchanging a few words of special farewell with some half-dozen of my best scholars: as decent, respectable, modest, and well-informed young women as could be found in the ranks of the British peasantry.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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