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    Abundant , a. [OE. (h)abundant, aboundant, F. abondant, fr. L. abudans, p. pr. of abundare. See Abound.] Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. “Abundant in goodness and truth.” 
    Exod. xxxiv. 6.

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    Abundant number (Math.), a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the number 16. This is opposed to a deficient number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2., 3.
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    Syn. -- Ample; plentiful; copious; plenteous; exuberant; overflowing; rich; teeming; profuse; bountiful; liberal. See Ample.
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    Number , n. [OE. nombre, F. nombre, L. numerus; akin to Gr. νόμος that which is dealt out, fr. νέμειν to deal out, distribute. See Numb, Nomad, and cf. Numerate, Numero, Numerous.]
    1. That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
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    2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
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      Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.
      Addison.

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    3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
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    4. Numerousness; multitude.
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      Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.
      Bacon.

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    5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
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      Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number.
      2 Esdras iii. 7.

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    6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
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    7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
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      I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
      Pope.

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    8. (Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.
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    9. (Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
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      Abstract number, Abundant number, Cardinal number, etc. See under Abstract, Abundant, etc. -- In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers.
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