| 单词 | numeric |
| 释义 | numeric, a. and n.|njuːˈmɛrɪk|
[ad. mod.L. numeric-us, f. numerus number. So F. numérique (1697), It., Sp., and Pg. numerico.]
†A. adj.
1. Identical. Obs.
1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 461 This is the same numerick Crew Which we so lately did subdue. 1727Swift To Delany Wks. 1751 VII. 236 Shew me the same numerick Flea, That bit your Neck but yesterday.
2. = numerical a. (and n.) 1, esp. 1 e.
1949E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains iv. 54 It will be reasonable to use numeric codes 0 to 9 in each column..because..numeric codes can be sorted faster than alphabetic codes. 1955[see alpha-numeric a.]. 1967D. Wilson in Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Management Technol. 45 In addition to the usual numeric and alphabetic characters, a range of special characters can normally be included. 1972Computer Jrnl. XV. 209/1 A monotonically increasing numeric value is associated with each partition or level of the tree. 1973Sci. Amer. June 65/2 Instruments that make rapid, high-precision measurements demand numeric readouts, since analogue presentations cannot display the results in any simple way.
B. n. (See quot. 1879.)
1879Thomson & Tait Nat. Phil. I. i. §345 The term numeric has been recently introduced by Professor James Thomson to denote a number, or a proper fraction, or an improper fraction, or an incommensurable ratio. 1888Jrnl. Educ. Dec. 573/2 When two numerics multiplied together give unity.., each is said to be the ‘reciprocal’ of the other. |
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