{
  "id": "figure.numeric",
  "term": "figure",
  "sense": "numeric",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "",
  "domain": "",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a number that is a quantity",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "number.quantity",
      "quantity.numerical"
    ],
    "interaction": "the number and the idea of quantity combine to create a figure",
    "novel_properties": [
      "symbolic amount",
      "abstract numeral"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The US Census recorded 331,449,281 residents in 2020, a figure used for apportioning congressional seats.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Higgs boson has a mass figure of 125.1 GeV/c², measured at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin's maximum supply is hardcoded as a figure of 21 million coins in its protocol.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "number.quantity",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "figure is a kind of number"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "figure",
    "figured",
    "figures",
    "figuring"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-figure.numeric"
}