Der obere Teil eines Bruches; Bruch.
1. A calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens; SYN. tabulator.
2. Horizontal surface over which business is transacted.
3. Piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot.
4. The part that fits the heel; SYN. heel.
5. Used in various card or board games.
Si unit (symbol m) of length, equivalent to 1.093 yards or 39.37 inches. It is defined by scientists as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.
In poetry, the recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse. The unit of meter is a foot. Meter is classified by the number of feet to a line: a minimum of two and a maximum of eight. A line of two feet is a dimeter. They are then named, in order, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter.Any instrument used for measurement. The term is often compounded with a prefix to denote a specific type of meter: for example, ammeter, voltmeter, flowmeter, or pedometer.(Alternate spelling: metre).
1. The basic unit of length adopted under the System International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards); SYN. metre, m.
2. Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time; SYN. time.
3. (Prosody) The accent in a metrical foot of verse; SYN. measure, beat, cadence.
4. Any of various instruments for measuring a quantity.
ETYM Latin numerator: cf. French numérateur.
The dividend of a fraction.
The number or symbol that appears above the line in a vulgar fraction. For example, the numerator of 5/6 is 5. The numerator represents the fraction's dividend and indicates how many of the equal parts indicated by the denominator (number or symbol below the line) comprise the fraction.
ETYM Old Eng. taile, taille, French taille a cutting, cut tally, from tailler to cut, but influenced probably by taillé, p. p. of tailler. Related to Tailor, Tail a limitation, Taille, Tallage.
1. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number.
2. Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
3. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally.
ETYM Latin numerator: cf. French numérateur.
The dividend of a fraction.
The number or symbol that appears above the line in a vulgar fraction. For example, the numerator of 5/6 is 5. The numerator represents the fraction's dividend and indicates how many of the equal parts indicated by the denominator (number or symbol below the line) comprise the fraction.
ETYM Latin numerator: cf. French numérateur.
The dividend of a fraction.
The number or symbol that appears above the line in a vulgar fraction. For example, the numerator of 5/6 is 5. The numerator represents the fraction's dividend and indicates how many of the equal parts indicated by the denominator (number or symbol below the line) comprise the fraction.