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numeration|njuːməˈreɪʃən|
Also 5 numeracion, 6 noumeracioun.
[ad. L. numerātiōn-em, n. of action f. numerāre to number. So F. numération (1484), Sp. numeracion, It. -azione.]
1. a. A method or process of numbering, reckoning, or computing.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 271 Men of the londe of Grece, that founde..a numeracion of yeres callede Olimpias. 1653Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xi. 144 Every day of sorrow is a thousand years of comfort, multiplied with a never ceasing numeration. a1695J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 663 The intellectual Numerations do eternally testify the Trinity of the King. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v., It being the law of the common numeration, that when you are arrived at ten, you begin again. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sci. (1857) I. 35 If..time is a numeration of motion.
b. Without article: Calculation; assignation of number to things.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. III. 178 Lying by Addition and Numeration, making frayes..by Diuision. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. iii. 285 That starre is the terme of numeration, or point from whence we commence the account. 1648T. Beaumont Psyche vii. xciii, In Seed Which past the shores of Numeration flows. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xvi. §5 All Numeration being but still the adding of one Unit more, and giving to the whole..a new or distinct Name or Sign. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. x, That progress of Science, which is to destroy Wonder, and in its stead substitute Mensuration and Numeration. 1867G. M. Musgrave Nooks & Corners Old France I. i. 34 The system of decimal numeration..facilitates this head-work.
2. The action, process, or result of ascertaining the number of people, etc.
1533Bellenden Livy iii. viii. (S.T.S.) I. 278 Þe nowmeration of pepill..was endit in þis ȝere. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. (1677) 231, I do not remember any Numeration of the People from this time till the time of King David. 1733Berkeley in Fraser Life (1871) vi. 207, I long for the numeration of Protestant and Popish families, which you tell me has been taken by the collectors. 1795Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 322 To make an exact numeration of the inhabitants of Ireland, distinguishing their religion. 1902Bible Student Oct. 216 The twofold numeration of the people.
3. Arith. (See quots.)
1542Recorde Gr. Artes (1575) 42 Numeration, is that Arithmeticall skill, whereby we may..value, expresse and reade any Number or summe propounded. 1594Blundevil Exerc. i. i. (1636) 1 What belongeth to Numeration? Two things, to know the shapes of the figures, and signification of their places. 1679Moxon Math. Dict. 107 Numeration, the first of the five Vulgar Rules of Arithmetick, teaching to read truly any Sum or Number. 1798Hutton Course Math. (1806) I. 8 Numeration is the reading of any number in words that is proposed or set down in figures. 1859B. Smith Arith. & Alg. (ed. 6) 3 Numeration is the converse of Notation, being the art of expressing any number in words which is already given in figures.
b. numeration table, a table showing the value of figures according to their place in a system of notation.
1800M. Edgeworth Belinda xx, His thousands and tens of thousands..pass the comprehension of the numeration table. 1854Orr's Circ. Sci., Math. Sci. 5 When the local values of these figures are written against them, it supplies what is..called the numeration table.
†4. Number. Obs. rare.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. v. 115 If we survey the totall set of animals, we may in their legs..observe an equality of length, and parity of numeration. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 172 When Division is said to make a Sum less in numeration..: It is to be understood of Integers.
5. Enumeration of things. rare—1.
1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. ii. 145 The numeration of the dresses appropriated to one of these plays. |