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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the set of positive integers and zero.
- noun A positive integer.
- noun An integer.
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- noun An
integer - noun mathematics A
natural number (positive or non-negative integer) - noun The
total count (Example: "The whole number of votes cast.")
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero
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