place value

Place value is the value assigned to a position in a sequence of numbers.

(noun)

An example of place value is 4 being in the hundreds in the number 2,423.

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See place value in Webster's New World College Dictionary

Math. the value assigned to each place () in a numeral, depending on the base () of the number system
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