Word Meanings - NUMBEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Numerous. Drant.

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• NUMEROUS
  1. Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army. Such and so numerous was their chivalry. Milton. 2. Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical. Such prompt
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• HYDRANT
  A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
• QUADRANT
  The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90º, or one subtending a right angle at the center. (more info) a whole, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. quadrant, cadran. See Four, and 1. The fourth part; the quarter. Sir T.
• TRIQUADRANTAL
  Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles. (more info) Trig.)
• OVERNUMEROUS
  Excessively numerous; too many.
• GUNTER'S QUADRANT
  A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.
• QUADRANTAL
  Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space. Quadrantal triangle, a spherical triangle having one side equal to a quadrant or arc of 90º. -- Quadrantal versor, a versor that expresses rotation
• HYDRANTH
  One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.