资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Numeric \Nu*mer"ic\, Numerical \Nu*mer"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F.
   num['e]rique. See {Number}, n.]
   1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in
      numbers; expressed by numbers, and not letters; as,
      numerical characters; a numerical equation; a numerical
      statement.

   Note: Numerical, as opposed to {algebraical}, is used to
         denote a value irrespective of its sign; thus, -5 is
         numerically greater than -3, though algebraically less.

   2. The same in number; hence, identically the same;
      identical; as, the same numerical body. [Obs.] --South.

            Would to God that all my fellow brethren, which with
            me bemoan the loss of their books, . . . might
            rejoice for the recovery thereof, though not the
            same numerical volumes.               --Fuller.

   {Numerical equation} (Alg.), an equation which has all the
      quantities except the unknown expressed in numbers; --
      distinguished from {literal equation}.

   {Numerical value} of an equation or expression, that deduced
      by substituting numbers for the letters, and reducing.