pseudonumerical

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ numerical.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pseudonumerical (not comparable)

1. Numerical in some ways (e.g. rank order) but not others (such as supporting arithmetic operations).
   • 1977, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, Jean Piaget, Piagetian Inventories: The Experiments of Jean Piaget, page 22:

     it would be tempting to show that he quite rapidly applies to it intuitive operators (or intuitive quantifiers) of the following type: "an apple", "1 apple", "apples", "the apples" (transition from unity to plurality), some apples " ( restricted plurality ) , " many apples " " few apples " (pseudonumerical plurality ) , "no apples" ( a specific null class: no apples no bread), etc.

   • 1995, International Aerospace Abstracts - Volume 35, Issues 7-9, page 1910:

     A general accurate pseudonumerical technique for the analysis of single and multilayer open planar resonators loaded with dielectric slabs is given that can be used to obtain inversion curves.

   • 2013, Hildegarde Heymann, Harry T. Lawless, Sensory Evaluation of Food: Principles and Practices, page 251:

     In many cases pseudonumerical scales have been set up to resemble category scales, but pseudonumerical scales really cut across different sensory experiences, mixing qualities.

   • 2016, Brendan Wallace, Alastair Ross, Beyond Human Error: Taxonomies and Safety Science, page 59:

     An example of how this is done would be to induce responses to a statement by asking people to, for example, agree or disagree with the statement by discriminating between a number (typically 5, 7, or 9) of numerical (or pseudonumerical) points.

2. (mathematics) Being a factor-object of an algebraically numerical object.
   • 2016, Christian Engström, Axel Torshage, “Enclosure of the Numerical Range of a Class of Non-Selfadjoint Rational Operator Functions”, in arXiv‎:

     We introduce a pseudonumerical range and study an enclosure of this set.