S: (n) dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict (a disagreement or argument about something important) "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
S: (n) difference (a significant change) "the difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference"
S: (n) Cartesian coordinate (one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes)
S: (n) dimension (one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space)
S: (n) abscissa (the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis)
S: (n) ordinate (the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis)
S: (n) polar coordinate (either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole)
S: (n) constant (a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context) "the velocity of light is a constant"
S: (n) coefficient (a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic)
S: (n) absorption coefficient, coefficient of absorption, absorptance (a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber) "absorptance equals 1 minus transmittance"
S: (n) coefficient of friction (the ratio of the weight of an object being moved along a surface and the force that maintains contact between the object and the surface)
S: (n) coefficient of mutual induction, mutual inductance (a measure of the induction between two circuits; the ratio of the electromotive force in a circuit to the corresponding change of current in a neighboring circuit; usually measured in henries)
S: (n) equilibrium constant ((chemistry) the ratio of concentrations when equilibrium is reached in a reversible reaction (when the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction))
S: (n) gas constant, universal gas constant, R ((physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole)
S: (n) Hubble's constant, Hubble constant, Hubble's parameter, Hubble parameter ((cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer; the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today)
S: (n) ionic charge (the charge on an ion is equal to a constant charge e multiplied by an integer from 1 to 15)
S: (n) Planck's constant, h (the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second)
S: (n) speed of light, light speed, c (the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second)
S: (n) oxidation number, oxidation state (the degree of oxidation of an atom or ion or molecule; for simple atoms or ions the oxidation number is equal to the ionic charge) "the oxidation number of hydrogen is +1 and of oxygen is -2"
S: (n) cardinality ((mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping))
S: (n) count (the total number counted) "a blood count"
S: (n) complement (a complete number or quantity) "a full complement"
S: (n) blood count (the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample)
S: (n) body count (a count of troops killed in an operation or time period) "the daily body count increased as the war went on"
S: (n) circulation (number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold) "by increasing its circulation the newspaper hoped to increase its advertising"
S: (n) circulation ((library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period)
S: (n) pollen count (the number of pollen grains (usually ragweed) in a standard volume of air over a twenty-four hour period and a specified time and place)
S: (n) sperm count (the number of sperm in an ejaculate) "the sperm count is used as an indicator of male fertility"
S: (n) factor (any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together)
S: (n) deflator (a statistical factor designed to remove the effect of inflation; inflation adjusted variables are in constant dollars)
S: (n) conversion factor (factor by which a quantity that is expressed in one set of units must be multiplied in order to convert it into another set of units)
S: (n) Planck's constant, h (the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second)
S: (n) par ((golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course) "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72"
S: (n) record (the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had) "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
S: (n) compound number (a quantity expressed in two different units) "one hour and ten minutes"
S: (n) googol (a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred))
S: (n) googolplex (a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol))
S: (n) base, radix ((numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place) "10 is the radix of the decimal system"
S: (n) atomic number (the order of an element in Mendeleyev's table of the elements; equal to the number of protons in the nucleus or electrons in the neutral state of an atom of an element)
S: (n) magic number (the atomic number of an extra stable strongly bound atomic nucleus: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 or 126)
S: (n) baryon number (a number equal to the difference between the number of baryons and the number of antibaryons in any subatomic structure; it is conserved in all types of particle interactions)
S: (n) quota (a prescribed number) "all the salesmen met their quota for the month"
S: (n) natural number (the number 1 and any other number obtained by adding 1 to it repeatedly)
S: (n) integer, whole number (any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero) "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"
S: (n) characteristic (the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2)
S: (n) divisor, factor (one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer) "what are the 4 factors of 6?"
S: (n) prime factor (the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity)
S: (n) equivalent-binary-digit factor (the average number of binary digits needed to express one radix digit in a numeration system that is not binary; on the average a number that can be expressed in N decimal digits takes 3.3N binary digits)
S: (n) significant digit, significant figure (any digit of a number that is known with certainty; any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value)) "he calculated the answer to four significant figures"
S: (n) zero, 0, nought, cipher, cypher (a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number)
S: (n) one, 1, I, ace, single, unity (the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number) "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one"
S: (n) monad, monas (a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive)
S: (n) singleton (a single object (as distinguished from a pair))
S: (n) mate, fellow (one of a pair) "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown"
S: (n) two, 2, II, deuce (the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number)
S: (n) craps, snake eyes (expressions used when when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot)
S: (n) milliard (a billion) "in England they call one thousand million a milliard"
S: (n) billion, one million million, 1000000000000 (the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen)
S: (n) population (the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)) "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"
S: (n) addend (a number that is added to another number (the augend))
S: (n) augend (a number to which another number (the addend) is added)
S: (n) minuend (the number from which the subtrahend is subtracted)
S: (n) remainder, difference (the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend)
S: (n) balance (the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)
S: (n) balance of trade, trade balance, visible balance, trade gap (the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise) "a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports"
S: (n) carry-over, carry-forward (the accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves)
S: (n) compensating balance, offsetting balance (a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan; a common requirement for establishing a line of credit at a bank) "the compensating balance increases the effective interest rate to the bank since the net amount loaned is reduced but the interest paid is unchanged"
S: (n) invisible balance (the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of services and payments of property incomes)
S: (n) mantissa, fixed-point part (the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808)
S: (n) continued fraction (a fraction whose numerator is an integer and whose denominator is an integer plus a fraction whose numerator is an integer and whose denominator is an integer plus a fraction and so on)
S: (n) square, second power (the product of two equal terms) "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"