Usually means: Numbers representing shapes with points.
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  1. figurate number: Merriam-Webster
  2. figurate number: Collins English Dictionary
  3. figurate number: Wiktionary
  4. figurate number: Infoplease Dictionary
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  6. Figurate number: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Figurate Number: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. figurate number: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (figurate number)

noun:  (mathematics, number theory) A number equal to the number of dots in a geometric figure formed of dots. The series begins with unity and is formed so that subtracting each from the following, and treating the series so formed in the same way, by a continuation of the process, yields equal differences.

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