Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To change to a decimal system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce to the decimal system: as, to
decimalize currency, weights, measures, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to convert the dominant units of measure (e.g. of currency) to a decimal-based system; to reduce to a decimal system.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, intransitive : To convert to the
decimal system .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb change from fractions to decimals
- verb change to the decimal system
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the National Convention introduced the metric system for weights and measures in 1793, it also tried to decimalize time.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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A more recent campaign to decimalize time also flopped.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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A more recent campaign to decimalize time also flopped.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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When the National Convention introduced the metric system for weights and measures in 1793, it also tried to decimalize time.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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When the National Convention introduced the metric system for weights and measures in 1793, it also tried to decimalize time.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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A more recent campaign to decimalize time also flopped.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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