numerlog

English

Etymology

From Latin numerus (“number”) +‎ -log.

Noun

numerlog (plural numerlogs)

1. The name of a numeric amount.
   • 1982, George E. Forman, Action and Thought:

     They show the children's understanding that the final digit of a numerlog sequence has a special status .

   • 2009, C. R. Gallistel, Rochel Gelman, The Child's Understanding of Number, page 122:

     A child was said to use this principle if on one or more of the counts of a given set size he repeated the last numerlog in his enumeration (as in "one, two, three; three"), or if he enumerated the set on one trial and on a subsequent trial gave only the final numerlog from his previous enumeration.

   • 2013, William Kessen, Andrew Ortony, Fergus Craik, Memories, Thoughts, and Emotions, page 76:

     We suggest that for small numerosities, the preverbal counter can run much faster than the verbal counting routine, so that the magnitude (the preverbal numeron) that represents the numerosity of an array is specified long before the verbal counting process has arrived at the correct numerlog It is specified so much sooner that one can get the correct numerlog more quickly by using the preverbal counting mechanism (subitizing) to get the preverbal numeron and use the preverbal numeron to retrieve the numerlog.