Phrase Hound found 352 phrases and 16 compound words that contain numbers. The most common are listed below. Open numbers in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 352
- phone numbersplural of phone number: The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.
- telephone numbersplural of telephone number: The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.
- Large numbers
- law of large numbersThe statistical tendency toward a fixed ratio in the results when an experiment is repeated a large number of times.
- real numbersplural of real number: The limit of a convergent sequence of rational numbers, whether the limit is a rational number such as 2, -5, or 2/7 or whether the limit is an irrational number such as the square root of two or the circumference of …
- serial numbersplural of serial number: A unique identifier, consisting of numbers, letters or other typographical symbols, assigned to a particular unit of some product in order to identify it.
- geometry of numbersThe subbranch of number theory which applies techniques from geometry to the study of algebraic numbers.
- numbers gameA lottery in which bettors attempt to guess which numbers will later be drawn randomly; especially, an illicit one.
- rational numbersplural of rational number: A number that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers.
- numbers stationA shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly of coded messages.
- make up the numbersTo provide sufficient people to make an event worthwhile.
- random numbersplural of random number: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see random, number.
- whole numbersplural of whole number: An integer.
- complex numbersplural of complex number: A number of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i denotes the imaginary unit.
- line numbersplural of line number: The sequential number indicating a particular line of text in a text file.
- natural numbersThe set of positive integers, {1, 2, 3, ...}.
- safety in numbersEllipsis of there is safety in numbers.
- item numbersplural of item number: An upbeat musical number within a film, accompanied by a provocative dance sequence performed by attractive women, or "item girls".
- prime numbersplural of prime number: Any natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers.
- part numbersplural of part number: A unique, typically alphanumeric code assigned to a specific component, material, or assembly in order to simplify identification, procurement, and inventory management.
- Port-numbers
- Significant numbers
- painting by numbersA recreation in which a board containing a picture to be painted is made up of numbered areas, each number corresponding to a color of paint to be applied.
- negative numbersplural of negative number
- made up the numberssimple past and past participle of make up the numbers
Compound words 16
- wavenumbersplural of wavenumber: A measure of the number of waves in unit distance; inversely proportional to its wavelength.
- outnumbersthird-person singular simple present indicative of outnumber: To be more in number than somebody or something.
- autonumbersplural of autonumber: An automatically generated number.
- copnumbersplural of copnumber: For a given undirected graph, the minimum number of cops that suffices to ensure a win (i.e. a capture of the robber) in a certain pursuit–evasion game on the graph.
- copynumbersplural of copynumber: The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome.
- crossnumbersplural of crossnumber: A puzzle that resembles a crossword but is to be filled with numbers rather than words, the numbers being clued either arithmetically or by general knowledge (such as the year of a historical event).
- hypernumbersplural of hypernumber: A kind of number more complex than a hypercomplex number.
- misnumbersthird-person singular simple present indicative of misnumber: To number incorrectly.
- multinumbersplural of multinumber: Relating to more than one telephone number.
- overnumbersthird-person singular simple present indicative of overnumber: To outnumber.