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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NUMERA'TION, n.
1. The act or art of numbering.
Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign.
2. In arithmetic, notation; the art of expressing in characters any number proposed in words, or of expressing in words any number proposed in characters; the act or art of writing or reading numbers. Thus we write 1000, for thousand, and 50, we read fifty.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: naming numbers
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 Date: 15th century 1. a. the act or process or an instance of counting or numbering; also a system of counting or numbering b. an act or instance of designating by a number 2. the art of reading in words numbers expressed by numerals

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a a method or process of numbering or computing. b calculation. 2 the expression in words of a number written in figures. Etymology: ME f. L numeratio payment, in LL numbering (as NUMBER)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Numeration Nu`mer*a"tion, n. [L. numeratio a counting out: cf. F. num['e]ration.] 1. The act or art of numbering. Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign. --Locke. 2. The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method. --Davies & Peck. Note: For convenience in reading, numbers are usually separated by commas into periods of three figures each, as 1,155,465. According to what is called the ``English'' system, the billion is a million of millions, a trillion a million of billions, and each higher denomination is a million times the one preceding. According to the system of the French and other Continental nations and also that of the United States, the billion is a thousand millions, and each higher denomination is a thousand times the preceding.