different between decimal vs integer

Translingual

Etymology

From English decimal point

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dei?si??mal] ^[sic]

Numeral

decimal

1. Code word for the decimal point in the NATO/ICAO and ITU/IMO spelling alphabets.

References

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin, Medieval Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus, from decem (“ten”) + adjective suffix -alis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?d?s?m??]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?s?m?l/

Noun

decimal (countable and uncountable, plural decimals)

1. (countable) A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.

   What is ⁷?₂₃ as a decimal?

2. (informal, uncountable) The decimal system itself.
3. (informal) A decimal place.

   Pi has a value of 3.142, to three decimals.

4. (informal) A decimal point.

Synonyms

• (number): See decimal number
• (system): See decimal system
• (place): See decimal place

Antonyms

• (fractional number): See fraction

Hyponyms

• binary-coded decimal

Related terms

Translations

References

• decimal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

decimal (not comparable)

1. (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.

Synonyms

• base-ten, denary (rare)

Translations

Verb

decimal (third-person singular simple present decimals, present participle decimaling, simple past and past participle decimaled)

1. to represent with numbers after a decimal point
   • 1984 Robert William Dent, Proverbial Language in English Drama Exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616: An Index

     Single- decimaled entries, often originating in Whiting (Wh) or Wilson (OW; see p. 23, fn.3), are from SPL. To save space, examples cited in SPL are normally not repeated (examples therefore begin with "Add:"). Double- decimaled entries, again often based on Wh or OW, are "new."

   • 2001 Richard J. Harris A Primer of Multivariate Statistics page 54

     simplified, substantively interpretable versions of the optimal (but many-decimaled) linear combinations of your original variables

   • 2015 Brad Knickerbocker, It’s Pi Day! Let’s have some pie. Christian Science Monitor

     So naturally, 3/14 – the 14th of March – is celebrated as “Pi Day.” And since 3.14 is the beginning, not the end of Pi – it can be decimaled on out to infinity – and since the next two numbers are 1 and 5 voila! today’s date 3/14/15 is really special.

Derived terms

• decimaled
• decimalic
• decimalite

See also

• base
• binary
• octal
• duodecimal
• hexadecimal
• vigesimal
• sexagesimal

Anagrams

• camelid, claimed, declaim, maliced, medical

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus.

Adjective

decimal m or f (plural decimais, comparable)

1. (arithmetic, computing) decimal (concerning numbers expressed in decimal or calculations using decimal)

Noun

decimal m (plural decimais)

1. (countable) decimal (number expressed in the decimal system)

Related terms

• decimo

Romanian

Etymology

From French décimal.

Adjective

decimal m or n (feminine singular decimal?, masculine plural decimali, feminine and neuter plural decimale)

1. decimal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin decimalis, from Latin decimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /de?i?mal/, [d?e.?i?mal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /desi?mal/, [d?e.si?mal]

Adjective

decimal (plural decimales)

1. decimal

Derived terms

• coma decimal
• punto decimal

Related terms

• décimo

Further reading

• “decimal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Adjective

decimal

1. decimal (using ten digits 0-9)

Declension

Related terms

• decimalbråk
• decimalkomma
• decimalsystem

See also

• binär
• oktal
• hexadecimal

Noun

decimal c

1. a decimal place (digits expressing decimal fractions)

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin integer (“untouched, unhurt, unchanged, sound, fresh, whole, entire, pure, honest”), from in + tangere (“to touch”). Doublet of entire. See tangere, tact. Related to English thack and thwack.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n't?j?r, IPA^(key): /??n.t?.d???(?)/

Noun

integer (plural integers)

1. (arithmetic) A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
   • 1886, Leopold Kronecker, speech to the Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung:

     God made the integers; all else is the work of man.

Synonyms

• whole number, when understood to include negative numbers and zero.
• integral number

Hypernyms

• rational number
  • real number
• Gaussian integer
  • quadratic integer
    • algebraic integer
      • algebraic number

Hyponyms

• natural number
• zero

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• integer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• integer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

• integer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• greetin', teering, treeing

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

integer (comparative integerder, superlative integerst)

1. honest, trustworthy, having integrity

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

integer (comparative integrer, superlative am integersten)

1. with integrity, of integrity

Declension

Related terms

• Integrität

Further reading

• “integer” in Duden online

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *entagros, from Proto-Indo-European *n?th?gros, from *teh?g- (whence tang?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.te.?er/, [??n?t????r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.te.d??er/, [?in?t??d???r]

Adjective

integer (feminine integra, neuter integrum, comparative integrior, superlative integerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. complete, whole, intact
2. uninjured, sound, healthy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• integer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• integer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• integer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• integer in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Limburgish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin integer.

Adjective

integer (comparative integerder, superlative integers, predicative superlative 't integers)

1. friendly
2. complete, whole, intact

Usage notes

Unlike in Dutch, it is not used in the meaning of honest or trustworthy.

Inflection