VIII

24 1.8

A Roman way of writing the number eight

numeral

: VIII

The Roman numeral VIII represents the number eight in mathematical equations.
VIII chapter
Article VIII
Section VIII

Examples

Finally, here we have digits that are bigger than five and we look for the rightmost one of them and that's the eight which is furthest to the right.
In ancient Rome, the number VIII was often used to denote eight soldiers in a unit.
So we have log base two of eight is equal to X.
That Electoral Commission assessed the returns as best they could understand them, and they voted eight to seven that Hayes had won.
So you're going to have two to the eight different nonces that will work.
He took out eight coppers and two of them left the actual police.
We've had that little girl for eight years now and she gave me purpose because I felt like our story was one that could help so many people.
Chapter VIII of the charter allows such cooperation and permits great flexibility in this regard.

Academic text (1996)
That's right, I just bought out the remaining inventory of XPC, a long dead PC store that hasn't even had a website for the last eight years.
She scored VIII points in the game, securing her team's victory.

Synonyms

viii

vsVIII

3 1.0

A Roman numeral for eight

is written in uppercase letters as the capital form

Compounds

factor VIII

Specialized

5.5

A protein in blood that helps form clots to stop bleeding

Surface Forms

VIII roman numeral

Etymology

VIII is the Roman way to write the number eight: it is made from V ('five') plus three Is ('one'), so 5 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 'eight'. A helpful image is a V with three small sticks added to remember you are adding three ones to five.