"line number" meaning in English

See line number in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: line numbers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} line number (plural line numbers)
  1. (computing) The sequential number indicating a particular line of text in a text file. Wikipedia link: line number Categories (topical): Computing, Numbers Translations (number of a line in a text file): 行號 (Chinese Mandarin), 行号 (hánghào) (Chinese Mandarin), Zeilennummer [feminine] (German), 行番号 (gyōbangō) (alt: ぎょうばんごう) (Japanese), но́мер строки́ (nómer strokí) [masculine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "number of a line in a text file",
      "word": "行號"
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