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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ENUMERA'TION, n. [L. enumeratio.] The act of counting or telling a number, by naming each particular.
1. An account of a number of things, in which mention is made of every particular article.
2. In rhetoric, a part of a peroration, in which the orator recapitulates the principal points or heads of the discourse or argument.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a numbered list [syn: enumeration, numbering]
2: the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours" [syn: count, counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally]

Merriam Webster's

noun see enumerate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Enumeration E*nu`mer*a"tion, n. [L. enumeratio: cf. F. ['e]num['e]ration.] 1. The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting. 2. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed. Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration. --Paley. 3. (Rhet.) A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Numbering, computation, citation, mention, detailed account, separate mention, specification. 2. (Rhet.) Recapitulation, summing-up.

Moby Thesaurus

accounting, active list, blacklist, blocking, census, checklist, civil list, counting, dactylonomy, detailing, foliation, inventory, inventorying, itemization, items, list, measurement, numbering, numeration, pagination, parsing, quantification, quantization, register, registry, repertory, resolution, retired list, scansion, schedule, schematization, sick list, tally, tally sheet, tallying, telling