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单词 numeration
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numerationn.

Brit. /ˌnjuːməˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌn(j)uməˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: late Middle English numeracion, late Middle English numeracioun, 1500s– numeration; Scottish pre-1700 nomeratioun, pre-1700 noumeracioun, pre-1700 nowmeration, pre-1700 numeracioun, pre-1700 numeration, pre-1700 numeratioun.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin numerātiōn-, numerātiō.
Etymology: < classical Latin numerātiōn-, numerātiō a calculation, reckoning, the paying out of money < numerāt- , past participial stem of numerāre numerate v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Middle French, French numération (1435), Italian numerazione (14th cent.), Spanish numeración (1734).
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.
b. An enumeration of things. Obsolete. rare.
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.
3. The expression in words of a number written in figures. Obsolete.
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.
4. Scottish. Payment in ready money. Cf. numbered adj. 1a. Obsolete.
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.
5. Quantity; number. Obsolete.
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.

Compounds

numeration table n. Obsolete a conversion table showing the value of a digit or figure according to its position in a system of notation.
ΘΚΠ
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).
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