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The act of counting
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numeration
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. naming numbers the act of counting; "the counting continued for several hours" [syn: count , counting , enumeration , reckoning , tally ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin numerationem (nominative numeratio ), noun of action from past participle stem of numerare "to count, number," from numerus "number" (see number (n.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Numeration \Nu`mer*a"tion\, n. [L. numeratio a counting out: cf. F. num['e]ration.] The act or art of numbering. Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign. --Locke. The act or art of reading numbers ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of counting or numbering things; enumeration. 2 Any system of giving names to numbers.
Usage examples of numeration.
But after He had formed this Idea, the particular conception, limited and intelligible, which the Ten Numerations are, of the medium of transmission, Adam Kadmon, the Primal or Supreme Man, He by that medium descended, and may, through that Idea, be called by the name IHUH, and so created things have cognizance of Him, by means of His proper likeness.
The sphere of Kether opened, and thereout issued Hakemah, to remain below Kether, containing in itself all the other numerations.
These Numerations are six in number, and are represented by the interlaced triangle, or the Seal of Solomon.
Numerations, six, represented by interlaced triangle, Seal of Solomon, 799-m.
It is also to be noted, that the Sephirothic tables contain still another numeration, sometimes called also a Sephirah, which is called Daath, cognition.
But their internal light re-ascended to Binah, and then flowed down again into the worlds Briah and Yezirah, there to form vestiges of the Seven Numerations.
Please specify data format and decimal, duodecimal, or binary numeration.
They have developed, it seems, a numeration system superior to any in existence, especially valuable in the handling of statistics.
July 4, 2076--and for the third time the accident of the conventional system of numeration, based on powers of ten, had brought the last two digits of the year back to the fateful 76 that had seen the birth of the nation.
July 4, 2076-and for the third time the accident of the conventional system of numeration, based on powers of ten, had brought the last two digits of the year back to the fateful 76 that had seen the birth of the nation.