Arabic numeral
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- noun
- /ˈærəbɪk ˈnjʊmərəl/
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número arábigo
- Use figures (Arabic numerals) for numbers that express time, dates, ages, sample and population sizes, participants in an experiment, scores and points on a scale, and exact sums of money.
Examples
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APA style refers to the Arabic form as "figure." You often use the figure (the Arabic numeral form), even when the number is under 10.
Academic text (2002) -
But the 1234567890 are Arabic numerals.
Blog text (15) -
I thought they just used Arabic numerals.
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'Arabic numerals' were actually invented in India in the 5th century.
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Arabic numerals are better for accounting than Roman ones.
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The Roman numeral indicates the year; the Arabic numeral indicates the issue.
Academic text (1996) -
Until Europeans adopted Arabic numerals in the Middle Ages, the concept of nothing, or none, had no numerical representation in the Western world.
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In this first individualized phase, Arabic numerals were always combined with the quantities to which they referred (also using analogical representations of quantity).
Academic text (2014) -
Acquisition of correct reading, writing, and naming Arabic numerals verbally was always associated with progressive and regressive counting (i.e., by ones, threes, fives, and tens).
Academic text (2014) -
In mathematics, we use Arabic numerals such as 1, 2, and 3 to represent numbers.
Synonyms
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One of the symbols zero to nine used to write numbers
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A word or symbol that shows a number
A symbol from 0 to 9 used to write numbers
A symbol for the numbers zero to nine used in decimal counting
A written symbol that shows one of the numbers 0 to 9
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term transparently combines 'Arabic' (relating to Arabic origin) with 'numeral' (a written number sign) to denote the common digit symbols (0–9). This is a direct, non-idiomatic composition—cross-linguistically many languages use a similar label to distinguish these digits from other systems (e.g., Roman numerals)—so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand the meaning.
Etymology
The term Arabic numeral comes from how the number signs reached Europe. One popular story says the digits 0–9 began in India and were taught to Europeans by Arab traders and books, so people called them Arabic numerals, and today Arabic numerals mean the everyday digits we use to write numbers.