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Webster 1913 Edition
Numeration
Nuˊmer-a′tion
,Noun.
[L.
numeratio
a counting out: cf. F. numération
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Numeration
NUMERA'TION
,Noun.
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.
2.
In arithmetic, notation; the art of expressing in characters any number proposed in words, or of expressing in words any number proposed in characters; the act or art of writing or reading numbers. Thus we write 1000, for thousand, and 50, we read fifty.Definition 2024
numeration
numeration
See also: numération
English
Noun
numeration (plural numerations)
- The act of counting or numbering things; enumeration.
- Any system of giving names to numbers.
Translations
act of counting or numbering things
any system of giving names to numbers