Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of counting or numbering; enumeration.
- noun A system of numbering.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of numbering.
- noun In arithmetic, the art of counting; the art of forming numeral words for use in counting; the system of numeral words in use in any language; the art of expressing in words any number proposed in figures; the act or art of reading numbers. See
notation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or art of numbering.
- noun The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
counting ornumbering things;enumeration . - noun Any system of giving
names tonumbers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
- noun naming numbers
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Examples
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We now unite to the exercises in numeration the earlier, sensory exercises in which the child recognised the long and short rods.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
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n. - art of calculating, especially in Arabic numeration; arithmetic. algorismic, alias adj. - otherwise called; n. assumed name. alicyclic adj. - denoting organic compounds that are both aliphatic and cyclic, i.e. aliphatic in chemical behaviour but having their carbon atoms in a ring.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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In Albania there exists one single fragment of vigesimal numeration, which is probably an accidental compound rather than the remnant of a former vigesimal number system.
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Levi Leonard Conant
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The number seven, therefore, must be foisted in wherever possible, and among other things, is to be made the basis of numeration, which is hereafter to be septimal instead of decimal: producing all the inconvenience of a change of system, not only without getting rid of, but greatly aggravating, the disadvantages of the existing one.
Auguste Comte and Positivism John Stuart Mill 1839
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Associated Press that no one had been shot during a "numeration" in the slums in 2009.
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So again, patron saint, remove a letter, then rearrange the remaining letters to create a new, familiar two-word phrase - the numeration three, seven - that names something important in life.
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Ah, but the infinite numeration of stars you never see in an ordinary night.
Southern Cross James Lloyd Davis 2011
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Ah, but the infinite numeration of stars you never see in an ordinary night.
Southern Cross James Lloyd Davis 2011
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So again, patron saint, remove a letter, then rearrange the remaining letters to create a new, familiar two-word phrase - the numeration three, seven - that names something important in life.
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It was on January 1920 when a numeration was issued for the first time: listed in alphabetical order, Hitler received the number 555.
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