real

Really; truly; very; quite.

The big-eyed herring, or saury, Elops sauras.

A subsidiary silver coin and money of account in Spain and Spanish-American countries.

The current real of Spain (real de vellon) is one quarter of the peseta or franc, and worth about 5 United States cents. The Mexican real, corresponding to the old Spanish real de plata, is one eighth of a dollar (Mexican peso), and reckoned at 12½ cents The latter coin, both Spanish and Mexican, circulated largely in the United States down to about 1850, being called a Spanish or Mexican shilling in New York, a levy (see levy, 1) in the South, etc.

In mathematics, involving no unit for number but the primitive unit, 1.