three-figure

1. 1.

   (of numbers) written with three figures

   “100 through 999 are three-figure numbers”

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Questions about three-figure

What does three-figure mean?

three-figure means "(of numbers) written with three figures".

How many syllables are in three-figure?

three-figure has 3 syllables: three--fi-gure. The stress falls on "three-".

Is three-figure a common word?

three-figure 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.