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NUMERICALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does numerically mean?
• NUMERICALLY (adverb)
The adverb NUMERICALLY has 1 sense:
1. in number; with regard to numbers
Familiarity information: NUMERICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In number; with regard to numbers
Context example:
in ten years' time the Oxbridge mathematicians, scientists, and engineers will not be much more significant numerically than the Oxbridge medical schools are now
Pertainym:
numerical (measured or expressed in numbers)
Context examples
An observation in a data set that is numerically distant from the rest of the data.
(Outlier, NCI Thesaurus)
Most of the work in modelling the behaviour of sand dunes is done numerically, but Vriend and the members of her lab designed and constructed a unique experimental facility which enables them to observe their long-term behaviour.
(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)
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