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num
A numerical value equal to 1,000 = 10 × 100 = 103 (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: one thousand, 1000, m, k
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: large integer
Narrower terms: millenary
History
From Middle English thousend, thusand, from Old English þūsend (“thousand”), from Proto-West Germanic *þūsundi, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundī (“thousand”), (compare Scots thousand (“thousand”), Saterland Frisian duusend (“thousand”), West Frisian tûzen (“thousand”), Dutch duizend (“thousand”), German tausend (“thousand”), Danish tusind (“thousand”), Swedish tusen (“thousand”), Norwegian tusen (“thousand”), Icelandic þúsund (“thousand”), Faroese túsund (“thousand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHsont-, *tuHsenti- (compare Lithuanian tūkstantis (“thousand”), Polish tysiąc, Russian ты́сяча (týsjača), Finnish tuhat, Estonian tuhat).
Across languages
313 source translations are retained for this English entry.
