"numeron" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001, Joao Branquinho, The Foundations of Cognitive Science, page 45",
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          "ref": "2013, William Kessen, Andrew Ortony, Fergus Craik, Memories, Thoughts, and Emotions, page 76",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "The one–one principle: Each item in the set is assigned one and only one numeron.",
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