Numbers

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Numbers \Num"bers\, prop. n.
     pl. of {Number}. The fourth book of the Pentateuch,
     containing the census of the Hebrews.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Numbers
       n 1: the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of
            the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt
            [syn: {Book of Numbers}]
       2: an illegal daily lottery [syn: {numbers pool}, {numbers game},
           {numbers racket}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  173 Moby Thesaurus words for "numbers":
     Alexandrine, Stabreim, a mass of, a world of, accent, accentuation,
     algorism, algorithm, alliterative meter, amount, amphibrach,
     amphimacer, amplitude, anacrusis, anapest, antispast,
     applied mathematics, army, arsis, bacchius, beat, bevy, bingo,
     bulk, bunch, cadence, caesura, card games, catalexis, chloriamb,
     chloriambus, chuck and toss, chuck farthing, chuck-a-luck, cloud,
     clutter, colon, counterpoint, covey, crack-loo, crap game,
     crap shooting, craps, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter,
     diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet,
     elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, extent, fan-tan,
     feminine caesura, figures, flight, flock, flocks, foot, force,
     hail, hazard, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter,
     hexapody, higher mathematics, hive, horse racing, host, iamb,
     iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jam, jingle, keno,
     large amount, legion, lilt, lots, lotto, magnitude, many,
     masculine caesura, mass, masses of, math, mathematic, mathematics,
     matter, measure, measurement, meter, metrical accent,
     metrical foot, metrical group, metrical pattern, metrical unit,
     metrics, metron, mob, molossus, mora, movement, muchness,
     multitude, nest, pack, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period,
     pinball, pitch and toss, plurality, policy, proceleusmatic,
     prosodic pattern, prosody, pure mathematics, pyrrhic,
     quantitative meter, quantities, quantity, quantum, quite a few,
     rhythm, rouge et noir, roulette, rout, ruck, scanning, scansion,
     scores, shell game, shoal, spondee, sprung rhythm, strength,
     stress, substance, sum, swarm, sweepstake, sweepstakes, swing,
     syllabic meter, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme,
     the numbers, the numbers game, thesis, throng, tidy sum,
     trente-et-quarante, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee,
     vers libre, versification, whole, worlds of
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  numbers n. [scientific computation] Output of a computation that may
     not be significant results but at least indicate that the program is
     running. May be used to placate management, grant sponsors, etc. `Making
     numbers' means running a program because output -- any output, not
     necessarily meaningful output -- is needed as a demonstration of
     progress. See {pretty pictures}, {math-out}, {social science number}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  numbers
       
          (Scientific computation) Output from a computation that may
          not be significant but at least indicates that the program is
          running.  Numbers may be used to placate management, grant
          sponsors, etc.  "Making numbers" means running a program
          because output - any output, not necessarily meaningful output
          - is needed as a demonstration of progress.
       
          See {pretty pictures}, {math-out}, {social science number}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-01-13)