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118 words in Number & Measure
Abacus
Number“counting board”
Arithmetic
Number“the counting art”
Asymmetry
Number“not measured together”
Asymptote
Number“not falling together”
Automorphism
Number“self form”
Axiom
Number“something thought worthy”
Basis
Number“a step, a standing place”
Biometrics
Number“measurement of life”
Canonical
Number“belonging to the measuring rod”
Carat
Number“little horn”
Characteristic
Number“of the engraved mark”
Chi
Number“the Greek letter kh”
Chord
Number“gut-string”
Cohomology
Number“the paired form of same-ratio”
Concentric
Number“sharing one centre-point”
Cone
Number“pine cone”
Cube
Number“a six-sided die”
Cycle
Number“circle”
Cyclotomic
Number“circle-cutting”
Decade
Number“a set of ten”
Decagon
Number“ten angles”
Diagonal
Number“through the angles”
Diagram
Number“marked out by lines”
Diameter
Number“measure across”
Dodecagon
Number“twelve angles”
Dodecahedron
Number“twelve seats”
Dyad
Number“a group of two”
Econometrics
Number“measurement of household management”
Ellipse
Number“a falling short”
Endomorphism
Number“forming within”
Epimorphism
Number“forming onto”
Epsilon
Number“plain e”
Ergodic
Number“work path”
Geodesic
Number“earth-dividing”
Goniometry
Number“angle measurement”
Gram
Number“a written letter”
Graph
Number“a thing drawn”
Hectare
Number“a hundred ares”
Heptagon
Number“seven angles”
Heterogeneous
Number“of another kind”
Heteroscedasticity
Number“different scattering”
Heuristic
Number“serving to find out”
Hexagon
Number“six angles”
Hexahedron
Number“six-seated”
Histogram
Number“upright drawing”
Holomorphic
Number“whole form”
Homeomorphism
Number“similar-shapedness”
Homogeneous
Number“of the same kind”