Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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NU'MERATOR, noun [Latin]
1. One that numbers.
2. In arithmetic, the number in vulgar fractions which shows how many parts of a unit are taken. Thus when a unit is divided into 9 parts, and we take 5, we express it thus, 5/9, that is, five ninths; 5 being the numerator and 9 the denominator.
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