单词 | numeration |
释义 | numerationn. 1. a. Calculation; the action or process of counting or assigning a number to something. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > assigning numbers to things numerationc1450 quotationc1485 c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 34 Of this art bene 9 spices, that is forto sey, numeracioun, addicioun, Subtraccioun, Mediacioun, Duplacioun, Multipliacioun, Dyvysioun, Progressioun, And of Rootes the extraccioun. c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) 1964 (MED) She taught nombre, whyche ys odde and whyche ys euyn..Ten figures eke of Augrym gan she neuyn, And kalendres for numeracioun. 1587 F. Clement Petie Schole 71 To haue spoken of ye tripart diuision of numeration, digit, articular & compound. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. S4 Lying by Addition and Numeration, making frayes..by Diuision. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. iii. 285 That starre is the terme of numeration, or point from whence we commence the account. View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvi. 99 All Numeration being but still the adding of one Unite more, and giving to the whole..a new or distinct Name or Sign. 1784 E. Allen Reason vii. §2. 240 Tracing the order of the succession of causes, we cannot include in our numeration the independent cause. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. x. 24/1 That progress of Science, which is to destroy Wonder, and in its stead substitute Mensuration and Numeration. 1867 G. M. Musgrave Nooks & Corners Old France I. i. 34 The system of decimal numeration..facilitates this head-work. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 140 Jacob..after a brief lesson in English reading or in numeration, was induced to remain standing at his teacher's knees. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 123/1 Transactions or circumstances which can be stated by numeration. 1950 Amer. Math. Monthly 57 110 This difficulty has been overcome by establishing a set of rules by means of which all numbers can be represented with a finite number of symbols. This set of rules is called a system of numeration. 1989 Psychol. Today Sept. 57/2 In mathematics, high-track students were exposed to numeration, computational systems..and statistics in high school. b. concrete. A method or process of numbering, counting, or reckoning. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > action of calculating or counting accountc1300 numberingc1325 telling1340 calculingc1374 countingc1380 accountinga1387 summinga1387 calculation1393 count?a1400 computationc1425 reckoningc1425 numeration?a1475 supputation?a1475 compute1531 calcule1601 summing up1607 computing1629 subduction1656 enumerating1864 headcount1913 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 271 Men of the londe of Grece, that founde..a numeracion of yeres callede Olimpias. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. i. xi. 144 Every day of sorrow is a thousand years of comfort, multiplied with a never ceasing numeration. 1687 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II (ed. 2) II. Notes sig. Tt2v The intellectual numerations do eternally testifie the Trinity of the King. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) It being the Law of the common Numeration, that when you are arrived at ten, you begin again. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. ii. 86 No one will ever be able to determine by an exact numeration, that an inch has fewer points than a foot. 1811 T. Jefferson Let. 10 Nov. in Writings (1984) 1253 Our arithmatic being founded in a decimal numeration, the same numeration in a system of measures, weights and coins, tallies at once with that. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. i. ii. 45 If..time is a numeration of motion. 1860 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 129 (title) Previous groupings were for particular numerations; this for numeration in general; being, in fact, the first numeric base,—the quinary. 1942 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 7 141 It is easily seen that the condition that a set be a numeration of a subset of c, adapted to F, can be formulated by a constitutive expression. 1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 481 I was wrong..to imply that the preservation of the subtitle or of the archetypal numeration..should be a good pointer to the more valuable manuscripts. 2. a. The action, process, or result of ascertaining the number of people, etc., in a specified category. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] rimeeOE talec950 numbrarya1382 compota1387 denumberment1455 numeration1533 magnitude1570 enumeration1577 annumeration1604 tally1614 denumeration1623 recensiona1638 connumeration1646 calculate1695 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. viii. 278 Þe nowmeration of pepill..was endit in þis ȝere. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 231 I do not remember any Numeration of the People from this time till the time of King David. 1733 G. Berkeley in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley (1871) vi. 207 I long for the numeration of Protestant and Popish families, which you tell me has been taken by the collectors. 1795 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 322 To make an exact numeration of the inhabitants of Ireland, distinguishing their religion. 1902 Bible Student Oct. 216 The twofold numeration of the people. ΚΠ 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. ii. 86 'Tis impossible they can..fix the equality of any line or surface by a numeration of its component parts. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. ii. 145 The numeration of the dresses appropriated to one of these plays. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > reading out numbers numeration1543 1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. i. sig. A.viiv Numeration is the arte to expresse and rede all sommes proposed. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. i. f. 1 What belongeth to Numeration? Two things, to know the shapes of the figures, and signification of their places. 1679 J. Moxon Math. made Easie 107 Numeration, the first of the five Vulgar Rules of Arithmetick, teaching to read truly any Sum or Number. 1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 6 Numeration is the reading of any number in words that is proposed or set down in figures. 1859 B. Smith Arith. & Algebra (ed. 6) 3 Numeration is the converse of Notation, being the art of expressing any number in words which is already given in figures. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > [noun] > cash-payment legem pone?1520 numeration1563 cash down1800 cash-payment1803 1563 Protocol Bk. J. Drummond (Edinb. Reg. House) f. 57 Eftir the numeracioun and telling thairof he deliu[er]it the samyn some. 1572 Protocol Bk. A. Lawson (Edinb. Reg. House) f. 20 The said numeratioun of the sowme foirsaid..wes done at the..said altar. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. x. §11 Even though the writ bear the numeration of the money and do expressly renounce the exception of not numerated money. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] i-telc1000 telc1000 numberc1300 suma1387 quantitya1398 umberc1400 value1543 term1552 terminus?a1560 quantum1567 valuation1636 numerality1646 numeration1646 numerical1760 numeric1878 naturality1942 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 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 . View more context for this quotation 1656 Duchess of Newcastle Assaulted & Pursued Chastity 256 The Prince ordered his Battalia, as he was used to do, making it thick..in action those thick bodies the half serves only as Cyphers without a figure; but never helps to multiply the numeration of blows. a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 172 When Division is said to make a Sum less in numeration..: It is to be understood of Integers. CompoundsΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > table compute manual1483 tariff1591 sexagenary table1594 table of multiplication1594 long measure1623 scale of numbers1630 Rudolphine Tables1635 multiplication table1657 chiliad1675 sexagesimal table1685 nautical card1700 pence table1706 numeration tablea1743 tablebook1755 ready reckoner1757 calculator1784 tables1828 times table1902 log tablec1935 a1743 J. Cannon Chrons. (2010) II. 338 Made a copy book & filled him with copies on one side & sums on the other being the numeration table, multiplication table & questions in vulgar arithmetic. 1772 S. Whyte Shamrock 444 Pit, with all his Powers, was scarcely able To learn, we are told, his Numeration Table. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xx. 281 His thousands and tens of thousands..pass the comprehension of the numeration table. 1854 Orr's Circle Sci.: Math. Sci. 5 When the local values of these figures are written against them, it supplies what is..called the numeration table. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450 |
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