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Definition of Decimalisation
1. Noun. The act of changing to a decimal system. "The decimalization of British currency"
Generic synonyms: Change
Derivative terms: Decimalise, Decimalise, Decimalize, Decimalize
Definition of Decimalisation
1. Noun. Conversion to a decimal system. ¹
2. Noun. Specifically, conversion of the currency of the United Kingdom in 1971 from pounds, shillings and pence to a decimal system in which one pound was worth 100 new pence (later renamed simply ''pence''). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decimalisation
Literary usage of Decimalisation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"The late J. Hamblin Smith's Rule for the decimalisation of English Money.1 By 3.
D. HAMILTON DICKSON. To divide by 96 is equivalent to multiplying by the ..."
2. A suggestion for a British decimal currency, and decimal system of accounts by C. A. Manning (1867)
"Believing, as the writer has above hinted, that the decimalisation of British
Currency and Account- keeping is but a question of time, his suggestion is a ..."
3. Investigations in Currency and Finance by William Stanley Jevons, ( (1884)
"The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins, and Accounts . . . with reference to the
decimalisation of the Currency. 245 pp. Portraits, Figures of Coins, etc. ..."
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