Nu"mer*al*ly, adv. According to number; in number; numerically.
Nu"mer*a*ry (?), a. [LL. numerarius: cf. F. numéraire.] Belonging to a
certain number; counting as one of a collection or body.
A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a
numerary canon.
Ayliffe.
Nu"mer*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numerated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Numerating (?).] [L. numeratus, p. p. of numerare to count. See Number,
v.] (Arith.) To divide off and read according to the rules of
numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.
Nu`mer*a"tion (?), n. [L. numeratio a counting out: cf. F. numération.]
1. The act or art of numbering.
Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to
the whole a new name or sign.
Locke.
2. The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of
numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading
numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method. Davies &
Peck.
For convenience in reading, numbers are usually separated by commas
into periods of three figures each, as 1,155,465. According to what is
called the "English" system, the billion is a million of millions, a
trillion a million of billions, and each higher denomination is a
million times the one preceding. According to the system of the French
and other Continental nations and also that of the United States, the
billion is a thousand millions, and each higher denomination is a
thousand times the preceding.
Nu"mer*a*tive (?), a. Of or pertaining to numeration; as, a numerative
system. Eng. Cyc.