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Nine vs Novum - What's the difference?

nine | novum |

As nouns the difference between nine and novum

is that nine is the digit or figure while novum is a new feature.

As a numeral nine

is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after eight and before ten.

nine

English

(wikipedia nine)

Numeral

(head)
  • (cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number occurring after eight and before ten.
  • A cat has nine lives.
  • Describing a set or group with nine components.
  • See also

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The digit or figure .
  • (card games) A playing card with nine pips.
  • (weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
  • (computing, engineering, usually in plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
  • They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines .
  • (label) A baseball club, a baseball team (composed of nine players).
  • * 1877, Chicago Times, July 8, 1877:Peter Morris,
  • A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, 15.1.3 Rain Checks, pp. 411–412
  • *:The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.
  • Synonyms

    * (Roman numerals): (l)

    Coordinate terms

    * Previous : eight () * Next : ten ()

    Derived terms

    * cloud nine * dressed to the nines * on cloud nine * the whole nine yards

    See also

    *

    novum

    English

    Noun

    (nova)
  • A new feature.
  • *
  • (obsolete) A game of dice, properly called novem quinque , the two principal throws being nine and five.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "novum") * 2006 , Adam Roberts, Science Fiction , pages 6-7: *: It seems that this ‘point of difference’, the thing or things that differentiate the world portrayed in science fiction from the world we recognise around us, is the crucial separator between SF and other forms of imaginative or fantastic literature. The critic Darko Suvin has usefully coined the term ‘novum'’, the Latin for ‘new’ or ‘new thing’, to refer to this ‘point of difference’ (the plural is ‘'''nova'''’). An SF text may be based on one '''novum''', such as [...]. More usually it will be predicated on a number of interrelated '''nova''', such as [...]. This ‘' novum ’ must not be supernatural but need not necessarily be a piece of technology. ----