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Definition of Numeration
1. Noun. Naming numbers.
2. Noun. The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order. "The counting continued for several hours"
Generic synonyms: Investigating, Investigation
Specialized synonyms: Blood Count, Census, Nose Count, Nosecount, Countdown, Miscount, Poll, Recount, Sperm Count
Derivative terms: Count, Count, Enumerate, Numerate, Tally
Definition of Numeration
1. n. The act or art of numbering.
Definition of Numeration
1. Noun. The act of counting or numbering things; enumeration. ¹
2. Noun. Any system of giving names to numbers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Numeration
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Numeration
Literary usage of Numeration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"They therefore very easily learn numeration, which consists in counting objects.
... The making of change is a form of numeration so attractive as to hold ..."
2. The Axioms of Projective Geometry by Alfred North Whitehead (1906)
"38 (/3) the anharmonic ratios in the numeration-system [OEU} of all harmonic
ranges on the axis are equal. Now let E' correspond to - 1 in the ..."
3. Introduction to The National Arithmetic: On the Inductive System Combining by Benjamin Greenleaf (1874)
"9t There are two methods of numeration in common use : the French and the ...
Repeat the French numeration Table. Name the different periods in the table. ..."
4. The Educational Significance of Sixteenth Century Arithmetic from the Point by Lambert Lincoln Jackson (1906)
"Notation and numeration The object of numeration was to teach the reading of
numbers written in the Hindu notation. For a hundred years after the first ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"numeration. Thus we speak of writing the numeral for 'five" meaning '5. ...
numeration implies the naming of numerals (qv) and groups of numerals expressing ..."
6. The Philosophy of Arithmetic as Developed from the Three Fundamental by Edward Brooks (1880)
"THE BASIS OF THE SCALE OF numeration. THE Basis of our scale of numeration and
notation is dec. imal. This basis is not essential, but accidental. ..."
7. A Textbook on the Teaching of Arithmetic by Alva Walker Stamper (1913)
"CHAPTER IV THE PRINCIPAL OPERATIONS IN ARITHMETIC NOTATION AND numeration!
Fundamental principles. In notation we are concerned with symbolizing numbers, ..."
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