chapter number

Book division label

A chapter number is the numeral identifying a chapter's position in a book or document: Chapter number 7 covers the Civil War.

In publishing and word processing, chapter numbers may be formatted with Roman numerals, Arabic numerals, or spelled out.

The term often appears in cross-references and tables of contents.

Related

volume · index · table of contents · roman · heading · title · bookmark · sequence · pagination · installment · part · division · segment · table · contents · first · next · previous

Opposites
document structure granularity

chapter numberpage number

Printed sheet identifier

page count · word count · line number · character count · part number

identification type

chapter numberchapter title

Name of book division

chapter heading

Family

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