ROMAN NUMERAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Roman numeral mean? 

• ROMAN NUMERAL (noun)
  The noun ROMAN NUMERAL has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ROMAN NUMERAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMAN NUMERAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Roman numeral" is a kind of...):

number; numeral (a symbol used to represent a number)

Antonym:

Arabic numeral (one of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0)

 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)