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numeration


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Numeration  \Nu`mer*a"tion\,  n.  [L.  numeratio  a  counting  out:  cf 
  F.  num['e]ration.] 
  1.  The  act  or  art  of  numbering. 
 
  Numeration  is  but  still  the  adding  of  one  unit  more 
  and  giving  to  the  whole  a  new  name  or  sign.  --Locke. 
 
  2.  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.  --Davies  &  Peck. 
 
  Note:  For  convenience  in  reading,  numbers  are  usually 
  separated  by  commas  into  periods  of  three  figures  each 
  as  1,155,465.  According  to  what  is  called  the 
  ``English''  system,  the  billion  is  a  million  of 
  millions,  a  trillion  a  million  of  billions,  and  each 
  higher  denomination  is  a  million  times  the  one 
  preceding.  According  to  the  system  of  the  French  and 
  other  Continental  nations  and  also  that  of  the  United 
  States,  the  billion  is  a  thousand  millions,  and  each 
  higher  denomination  is  a  thousand  times  the  preceding. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  numeration 
  n  1:  naming  numbers 
  2:  the  act  of  counting  [syn:  {count},  {counting},  {enumeration}, 
  {reckoning},  {tally}] 




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