whole number

Questions about whole number

What does whole number mean?

whole number means "any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero".

What is another word for whole number?

Close synonyms include integer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whole number a common word?

whole 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.