numeration

American  

[noo-muh-rey-shuhn, nyoo-] / ˌnu məˈreɪ ʃən, ˌnyu- /

noun

1. an act or instance of or the process or result of numbering or counting.

2. the process or a method of reckoning or calculating.

3. the act, art, or method of expressing or reading off numbers set down in numerals, especially those written decimally.

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numeration British  

/ ˌnjuːməˈreɪʃən /

noun

1. the act or process of writing, reading, or naming numbers

2. a system of numbering or counting

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Other Word Forms

• numerative adjective

Etymology

Origin of numeration

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin numerātiōn- (stem of numerātiō ) a counting out, paying, equivalent to numerāt ( us ) numerate + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

In 1931 Cœdès concluded that the numeration system used in the inscribed date, 605, was decimal in nature and positional in conception and that the central glyph was an empty placeholder, a zero.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022

Researchers at the Center for Civilizational Dialogue at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur have been investigating the history of early numeration systems of Southeast Asia.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022

A variation of Raddix — radix — is a mathematical term for the basis of a system of numeration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2020

Each personage�a hulking pro football player, symmetrical in size and numeration, or Thiebaud's wife posing as a bather with a double-dip strawberry ice-cream cone�juts forward like a sculptured relief from a general porcelain-white background.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a blank spot in the Babylonian system of numeration.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife