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Webster 1913 Edition
Abundant
A-bun′dant
,Adj.
Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; – followed by in, rarely by with.
“Abundant in goodness and truth.” Exod. xxxiv. 6.
Abundant number
(Math.)
, a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the number 16. This is opposed to a
deficient
number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect
number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2., 3.
Syn. – Ample; plentiful; copious; plenteous; exuberant; overflowing; rich; teeming; profuse; bountiful; liberal. See
Ample
. Webster 1828 Edition
Abundant
ABUND'ANT
,Adj.
The Lord God is abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv.
Abundant number, in arithmetic, is one, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the sum of 16. This is opposed to a deficient number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 3.