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Definition of Decimalize

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 Decimalize

1. v. t. To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.

Definition of Decimalize

1. Verb. (transitive intransitive): To convert to the decimal system. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Decimalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decimalize

decimal places decimal point decimal points decimal system decimal without a zero decimalisation decimalisations decimalise decimalised decimalises

decimalising decimalism decimalization decimalizations decimalize (current term) decimalized decimalizes decimalizing decimally decimals

decimate decimated decimates decimating decimation decimations decimator decimators decime

Literary usage of Decimalize

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

1. The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition; a Treatise on Spelling by Theodore Low De Vinne (1902)
"... dechristianize dechristianize dechristianize dechristianize decimalize decimalize decimalize decimalize ..."

2. Reports of Samuel B. Ruggles, Delegate to the International Statistical by Samuel Bulkley Ruggles (1864)
"If you agree to decimalize your foot, you must decimalize your inch and yard to make it of any value; and if you decimalize your pound, you must decimalize ..."

3. Reports of Samuel B. Ruggles: Delegate to the International Statistical by Samuel Bulkley Ruggles (1864)
"If you agree to decimalize your foot, you must decimalize your inch and yard to make it of any value; and if you decimalize your pound, you must decimalize ..."

4. Annals of British Legislation: Being a Classified and Analysed Summary of edited by Leone Levi (1864)
"In his opinion, it was expedient, in the first instance, to decimalize the coinage ; this would greatly facilitate the change to a decimal system of weights ..."

5. Modern Ideas and Methods for School Teachers and Students in Training from a by John Eades (1922)
"To decimalize the pence and farthings, we have to remember that %d.=£^v, ie, -001 approximately. If we multiply this by the number of farthings contained in ..."

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