Pseudonumerical
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Numerical in some ways (e.g. rank order) but not others (such as supporting arithmetic operations). not-comparable
"it would be tempting to show that he quite rapidly applies to it intuitive operators (or intuitive quantifiers) of the following type: "an apple", "1 apple", "apples", "the apples" (transition from unity to plurality), some apples " ( restricted plurality ) , " many apples " " few apples " (pseudonumerical plurality ) , "no apples" ( a specific null class: no apples no bread), etc."
- 2 Being a factor-object of an algebraically numerical object. not-comparable
"We introduce a pseudonumerical range and study an enclosure of this set."
Example
More examples"it would be tempting to show that he quite rapidly applies to it intuitive operators (or intuitive quantifiers) of the following type: "an apple", "1 apple", "apples", "the apples" (transition from unity to plurality), some apples " ( restricted plurality ) , " many apples " " few apples " (pseudonumerical plurality ) , "no apples" ( a specific null class: no apples no bread), etc."
Etymology
From pseudo- + numerical.
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