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NUMEROUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Amounting to a large indefinite number
Example:
Palomar's fans are legion
Synonyms:
legion; numerous
Classified under:
Similar:
many (a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by 'as' or 'too' or 'so' or 'that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number)
Derivation:
numerosity; numerousness (a large number)
Context examples:
Researchers used numerous images of Mimas taken by NASA's Cassini mission to determine how much the moon wobbles as it orbits Saturn.
(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)
In a second significant finding, New Horizons has detected numerous small, exposed regions of water ice on Pluto.
(New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto, NASA)
The event prompted numerous changes in the lakes, streams and soils of the region over the following decade.
(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)
A pleomorphic cell of the pulmonary alveolar epithelium that secretes surfactant and is distinguished by abundant cytoplasm containing numerous lipid-rich multilamellar bodies.
(Alveolar Cell Type II, NCI Thesaurus)
EGFR, a receptor tyrosine kinase, is overexpressed in numerous cancer cell types, and plays a significant role in tumor cell progression.
(Carbon C 11 Erlotinib Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
Orphan Nuclear Receptor Genes (NR Superfamily) encode numerous Orphan Nuclear Receptor (NRs) transcription factors thought to be activated by as yet unknown ligands.
(Orphan Nuclear Receptor Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
For exchange of material, for example, proteins and mRNA, it is punctured with numerous nuclear pores.
(Nuclear Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)
GSSG and GSH together play important roles in numerous redox reactions, such as those involved in the detoxification of harmful substances and free radicals, and in reactions preventing oxidative damage in erythrocytes.
(Oxiglutatione, NCI Thesaurus)
A malignant neoplasm characterized by the formation of numerous, irregular, finger-like projections of fibrous stroma that is covered with a surface layer of neoplastic epithelial cells.
(Papillary Carcinoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
“There have,” said I, “been numerous petty thefts.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
