Lexic.us

Definition of Decimalization

1. Noun. The act of changing to a decimal system. "The decimalization of British currency"

Definition of Decimalization

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of decimalisation) ¹

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Definition of Decimalization

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decimalization

Literary usage of Decimalization

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

1. The Metric Fallacy: An Investigation of the Claims Made for the Metric by Frederick Arthur Halsey, Samuel Sherman Dale (1920)
"... CHAPTER XIX THE decimalization OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES The term decimalization, as applied to weights and measures, has two meanings, which are often, ..."

2. Modern Ideas and Methods for School Teachers and Students in Training from a by John Eades (1922)
"decimalization can be used in ' practice ' sums. Suppose I wish to find the ... Interest sums can also be worked by decimalization. Find the simple interest ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1855)
"... of the past with the future ; but we should be in harmony with France, and perhaps it is thought that that would fully compensate. On the decimalization ..."

4. Securities Markets: Decimal Pricing Has Contributed to Lower Trading Costs by Richard J. Hillman (2005)
"York Stock Exchange, Inc., decimalization of Trading on the New York Stock ... Also see NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., The Impact of decimalization on The ..."

5. Money and the Mechanism of Exchange by William Stanley Jevons (1919)
"decimalization of English Money. Since Lord "Wrottesley in 1824 proposed in parliament to adopt a decimal subdivision of the pound sterling, ..."

6. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1855)
"On the decimalization of the Tariff. By WILLIAM MILLER. Communicated by ROBERT RR MOORE. Magnitude and Fluctuation of the Circulation of Bills of Exchange, ..."

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