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Look up: myriad

  1. myriad
    very great number 
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  2. myriad
    [n] - a large indefinite number
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Myriad
    Myriad: A great number, a very large number, a huge number of something. There are, for example, myriad ways in which syphilis can present; it is the great imitator. 'Myriad' is a Greek word for 10,000 (ten thousand).
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  4. Myriad
    Definition (keystage 2) Ten thousand (10000).
    Found on http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.ht

  5. Myriad
    Myr'i·ad noun [ Greek ..., ..., from ... numberless, plural ... ten thousand: confer French myriade .] 1. The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things. 2. An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/124

  6. Myriad
    Myr'i·ad adjective Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/124

  7. Myriad
    `Myriad` is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10,000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity. The term `myriad` is a progression in the commonly used system of describing numbers using tens and hundreds. Small numbers are named in terms of number of tens plus the remainder; for example 76 is seven tens plus six. Numbers larger than ten tens require a new description, a hundred. Thus, 1776 is seventeen hundre...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad

  8. Myriad
    • (a.) Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars. • (n.) The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things. • (n.) An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. myriad
    myriad 1. So many that they cannot be counted: 'The myriad stars were impossible to count.' 2. Made up of many different components: 'The Earth has a myriad of animals in its global ecological system.' 3. Constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable: 'They saw the myriad fish in the ocean.' 3. Composed of numerous diverse elements or facet...
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  10. myriad
    1. a large indefinite number
    2. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand

    Found on

  11. myriad
    A term which today is normally synonymous with 'very large number.' Its origins go back to the Greek word murious, meaning uncountable. The plural of this, murioi, evolved into the Latin myriad, which the Romans used to represent ten thousand. Myriapod is a general name for any many-legged anthropod...
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23 November 2009

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