abundant number
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1.That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures. [1913 Webster]
2.A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many. [1913 Webster]
Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.— Addison.[1913 Webster]
3.A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door. [1913 Webster]
4.Numerousness; multitude. [1913 Webster]
Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]
5.The state or quality of being numerable or countable. [1913 Webster]
Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number.— 2 Esdras iii. 7.[1913 Webster]
6.Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things. [1913 Webster]
7.That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural. [1913 Webster]
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.— Pope.[1913 Webster]
8.(Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one. [1913 Webster]
9.(Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value. [1913 Webster]
Abstract number, Abundant number, Cardinal number, etc. See under Abstract, Abundant, etc.
In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers. [1913 Webster]
1.Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. [1913 Webster]
Something he left imperfect in the state.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
2.Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity. [1913 Webster]
He . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.— Jer. Taylor.[1913 Webster]
3.Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective. [1913 Webster]
Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.— Pope.[1913 Webster]
Imperfect arch, an arch of less than a semicircle; a skew arch.
Imperfect cadence (Mus.), one not ending with the tonic, but with the dominant or some other chord; one not giving complete rest; a half close.
Imperfect consonances (Mus.), chords like the third and sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the fifth and forth.
Imperfect flower (Bot.), a flower wanting either stamens or pistils. --Gray.
Imperfect interval (Mus.), one a semitone less than perfect; as, an imperfect fifth.
Imperfect number (Math.), a number either greater or less than the sum of its several divisors; in the former case, it is called also a defective number; in the latter, an abundant number.
Imperfect obligations (Law), obligations as of charity or gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law.
Imperfect power (Math.), a number which can not be produced by taking any whole number or vulgar fraction, as a factor, the number of times indicated by the power; thus, 9 is a perfect square, but an imperfect cube.
Imperfect tense (Gram.), a tense expressing past time and incomplete action. [1913 Webster]
Abundant number (Math.), a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the number 16. This is opposed to a deficient number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2., 3. [1913 Webster]
Syn: Ample; plentiful; copious; plenteous; exuberant; overflowing; rich; teeming; profuse; bountiful; liberal. See Ample. [1913 Webster]