decimalizev.
/ˈdɛsᵻməlʌɪz/, /ˈdɛsᵻml̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈdɛsəməˌlaɪz/ 1. transitive. To convert (a number or unit) according to a decimal system; to convert to a decimal system.
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1797 C. Lee Amer. Accomptant iii. xi. 210 Hundreds may be decimalized in the same manner as Shillings.
1867 Contemp. Rev. 4 19 There would be no advantage in decimalizing the penny; the halfpenny and farthing are all we want.
1888 Eclectic Mag. Apr. 546/2 Assayers and bullion-dealers have decimalized the ounce.
1975 Bull. Atomic Scientists Feb. 9/2 The 175-year old system decimalizes the second, but not the hour nor the minute.
2002 Times 11 Feb. 41/6 Geologists commonly decimalise time, at least large spans of it.
2007 P. S. Rudman How Math. Happened iii. 90 The first nation to..decimalize its currency was the United States in 1792.
2. intransitive. To adopt a decimal currency; to effect decimalization.
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1856 Leisure Hour 10 Apr. 231/2 If we begin with the sovereign, and decimalize downwards, we come first to the florin.
1885 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 82 84 The arrangement that would least disturb existing prices would be to decimalize upwards from the farthing.
1972 Times 12 Aug. 16/6 It would have been better if we had never decimalized.
2011 M. Dincecco Polit. Transformations & Public Finances 194 Austria decimalized in 1857, adopting a system of 1 gulden to 100 kreuzer.
Derivatives
ˈdecimalized adj.
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1846 H. Taylor Observ. Current Coinage Great Brit. 12 I may be allowed, when on the subject of decimalized coins, to say a word as to the kindred one of decimal weights.
1903 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 156 131 I substituted for the decimalized value a ratio between two whole numbers.
2001 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 13 Mar. (Financial Post section) c11 The outage was an ominous sign coming on the day of Nasdaq's first experience of decimalized trading.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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