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Tenth century “West Arabic” variation of the Nepali form of Hindu-Arabic numerals (compare Devanagari script १ (1, “éka”)), possibly influenced by Roman numeral Ⅰ, both ultimately from using a single stroke to represent the number one. See 1 § As a digit on WikipediaWikipedia for more.

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1. The cardinal number one, a single thing or unit.
2. A digit in decimal and every other base numbering system, including binary, octal, and hexadecimal.

   15 × 134 = 2010

   0010 0011₂ (the number 35 in binary notation)

   0x1000E001 (the number 268492801 in hexadecimal notation)

3. (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.

   a×1 = a

4. (computer science) Bit state corresponding to binary digit 1, or on or true.
5. (mathematics) A Boolean or truth value corresponding to true.

   f : B^k → B : B = {0, 1}

6. (mathematics) The one-point topological space, trivial ring, trivial group, a category with a single object or a (canonical) singleton.
8. January.

   Comeronyms: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

9. (phonetics, often superscript) the pitch of a tone, either high or low depending on local convention; '1' is most commonly the highest or lowest pitch (but see 0)

   Synonyms: ˥, ˩

10. (phonetics, Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 1, typically identified with dark level yin ping (陰平). May simply be level ping tone (平) if the yin–yang distinction is not made.

    Synonym: ꜀

11. (linguistics, superscript) accent in Norwegian, Swedish and Limburgish.

    Norwegian/Swedish toneme 1 is sometimes transcribed with a simple primary stress mark, that is ˈ.

12. (linguistics) First person.

    Coordinate terms: 2, 3

• Letter styles
• Lining digit 1.
• Oldstyle 1 in Fraktur script.

The following forms are equivalent as a decimal digit:

The following additional forms are equivalent as a cardinal number:

• 1 (number) in Wikipedia
• (Arabic digits): 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Other representations of 1:

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1. (nonstandard) alternative form of Ӏ/ӏ (Cyrillic letter palochka)

• enPR: wŭn, IPA^(key): /wʌn/, Australia IPA^(key): /wan/, UK often IPA^(key): /wɒn/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌn

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1. (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !, imitating someone who is too excited to consistently press the shift key while typing exclamation marks.

   Synonyms: one, eleven

   A: someone hlep me pls im always losing!!!1!
   B: Thats bcuz ur st00pid!!!!!11!!oneone!!1!!eleven!1

2. (gaming, often derogatory) Abbreviation of one-shot or one-shotted.

1 (plural 1s)

1. (sports, skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing) Clipping of 180 (“180° spin”).

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1. one
2. (gay slang) top

• (Hong Kong Cantonese) 1仔 (jat¹ zai²)

• 0 (líng)
• 0.5 (língdiǎnwǔ)

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1. (text messaging) abbreviation of ein

(suffix): From the homophony between ett (“one”, neuter) and the grammatical suffixes.

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1. (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) deliberate misspelling of !

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1. (nonstandard suffix) -et (“singular definite nominative; the”)

   Apotek1

   The Pharmacy

   Bud1

   The Courier

2. (nonstandard suffix) -et (“neuter singular”)

   Mog1 av dig.

   Very mature of you.

• mog1 (“mature”) (slang)