numbering
Speech parts
1. numbering - Noun
2. numbering - Verb
Meaning
of Number
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According to Daily Trust, the monarch whose name is withheld explained that gunmen numbering about 11 were armed with sophisticated weapons when they besieged his house at about 2 am.
Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition.
African Americans formed a large part of the city's population, numbering 23,929 people, or nearly one-third of the residents. citation President Woodrow Wilson opened the deep-water Port of Houston in 1914, seven years after digging began.
Additionally, the Indian numbering system of crores and lacs is used alongside otherwise metricated currency units, while tyre rim diameters are still measured in inches, as used worldwide.
After the Portuguese were allowed to permanently settle in Macau, both Chinese and Portuguese merchants flocked to Macau, although the Portuguese were never numerous (numbering just 900 in 1583 and 1200 out of 26,000 in 1640).
Additional degrees are sometimes referred to as appendant degrees, even where the degree numbering might imply a hierarchy.