real number

English Thesaurus

1. any rational or irrational number (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	complex number, complex quantity, imaginary, imaginary number,
definition	:	(mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 (noun.quantity)

hyponym	:	dot product, inner product, scalar product,
definition	:	a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors (noun.cognition)

hyponym	:	rational, rational number,
definition	:	an integer or a fraction (noun.quantity)

hyponym	:	irrational, irrational number,
definition	:	a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number (noun.quantity)