Definition of Decimalise

1. Verb. Change from fractions to decimals. "Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000"

Exact synonyms: Decimalize
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Decimal, Decimalisation, Decimal, Decimalization

2. Verb. Change to the decimal system. "The country decimalized the currency in 1975"
Exact synonyms: Decimalize
Generic synonyms: Change Over, Convert
Derivative terms: Decimal, Decimalisation, Decimal, Decimalization

Definition of Decimalise

1. Verb. (British spelling) (alternative spelling of decimalize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decimalise

decimal fractions
decimal notation
decimal number
decimal number system
decimal numbers
decimal numeration system
decimal place
decimal places
decimal point
decimal points
decimal system
decimal without a zero
decimalisation
decimalisations
decimalise (current term)
decimalised
decimalises
decimalising
decimalism
decimalization
decimalizations
decimalize
decimalized
decimalizes
decimalizing
decimally
decimals
decimate
decimated

Literary usage of Decimalise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Plan for Assimilating the English and American Money: As a Step by Walter Bagehot (1889)
"... upon condition that France and other countries adopted it as a monetary unit too; that we should decimalise upon that basis, if they would change their ..."

2. The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot by Walter Bagehot, Mrs Russell Barrington (1915)
"... upon condition that France and other countries adopted it as a monetary unit too; that we should decimalise upon that basis, if they would change their ..."

3. Annals of British Legislation: Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of edited by Leone Levi (1864)
"He is strongly in favour of a decimal system of coinage, and of weights, &c., and would retain and decimalise English units, u admitting of the co-existence ..."

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