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Definition of Decimalise

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

2. Verb. Change to the decimal system. "The country decimalized the currency in 1975"

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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