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abstract number

noun

, Mathematics.
  1. a number that does not designate the quantity of any particular kind of thing.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of abstract number1

First recorded in 1550–60

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Example Sentences

And T must be, not a sum of concrete goods, but a sum of abstract numbers, and so itself an abstract number.

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