natural number

1. 1.

   the number 1 and any other number obtained by adding 1 to it repeatedly

   Broadernumber

Questions about natural number

What does natural number mean?

natural number means "the number 1 and any other number obtained by adding 1 to it repeatedly".

Is natural number a common word?

natural number is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.