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A skeleton key is a 万 能 钥 匙 ("myriad-use key"), [8] the emperor was the "lord of myriad chariots" (萬乘之主), [9] the Great Wall is called 万 里 长 城 ("Myriad-mile Long Wall"), Zhu Xi's statement 月 映 万 川 ("the moon reflects in myriad rivers") had the sense of supporting greater empiricism in Chinese philosophy, [10] and ...
It defines a myriad as "a classical Greek word". But WP is not a dictionary, and in this case (unlike, say, Man (word)), the article is not about the Greek word, but the concept of 10,000 as a numerical unit, which is expressed using the English word "myriad" which is borrowed from Greek. cf. Use–mention distinction.
The number system in use at that time could express numbers up to a myriad (μυριάς — 10,000), and by utilizing the word myriad itself, one can immediately extend this to naming all numbers up to a myriad myriads (10 8). [3] Archimedes called the numbers up to 10 8 "first order" and called 10 8 itself the "unit of the second order".
Santino also offered Travis praise for replacing the word pseudonym with the word myriad. “You have a litany,’ you could say litany,” he added. “A litany of lists.”
The number simply denotes innumerability, in a manner etymologically similar to the Greek myriad (although the current usage of that word differs). During the Qing, at the entrances of mosques in China , a tablet was placed upon which the characters for Huangdi, wansui, wansui, wanwansui (皇帝萬歲，萬歲，萬萬歲) were inscribed, which ...
It has been estimated that the vocabulary of the English language consists of roughly 1 million words (although some linguists take that number with a grain of salt and say they wouldn't be ...
Some words that have a precise numerical definition can be used indefinitely. For example: couple (2), [21] dozen (12), score (20); myriad (10,000). When a quantity word is prefixed with an indefinite article then it is sometimes intended or interpreted to be indefinite. For example, "one million" is clearly definite, but "a million" could be ...
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