numerics

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noun

The field of numerically-controlled engineering.

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

nounnumerics (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe field of numerically-controlled engineering.

    "Instead of openness, there was the cunning tactics of cover-up and a complete failure by General De Chastelain to deal with the vital numerics of decommissioning," said Ian Paisley, 79, the Protestant preacher who heads the Democratic Unionists, Northern Ireland's largest party.

    2005 September 27, Brian Lavery, “I.R.A. Destroys What It Says Were the Last of Its Weapons”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 May 2021

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*nem-
  2. Proto-Italic*nomezos
  3. Latinnumerus
  4. Frenchnumérique
  5. Englishnumeric
  6. Englishnumerics

From numeric + -ics.

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APA

numerics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numerics

MLA

“numerics.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numerics. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “numerics,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/numerics.

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