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Definition of "numeration" []

  • The act or process of counting or numbering; enumeration. (noun)
  • A system of numbering. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "numeration" in a sentence
  • "We now unite to the exercises in numeration the earlier, sensory exercises in which the child recognised the long and short rods."
  • "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."
  • "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."