numeration

Roget category 85

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.5. Number
›› 1.5.1. Number, in the abstract

#85. Numeration

noun

numeration — numbering etc. v. — pagination — tale, recension^†, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation^† — calculation, calculus — algorithm, algorism^†, rhabdology^†, dactylonomy^† — measurement etc. 466 — statistics.
arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry, fluxions^† — differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus — calculus of differences.
[Statistics] dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation — account etc. (list) 86.
[Operations] notation, , addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration.
[Instruments] abacus, logometer^†, slide rule, slipstick [Coll.], tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan^† — adding machine — cash register — electronic calculator, calculator, computer — [people who calculate] arithmetician, calculator, abacist^†, algebraist, mathematician — statistician, geometer — programmer — accountant, auditor.

verb

number, count, tally, tell — call over, run over — take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate — sum — sum up, cast up — tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute^†, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots.
algebraize^†.
check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock — affix numbers to, page.
amount to, add up to, come to.

adjective

numeral, numerical — arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable — commensurable, commensurate — incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite.

adverb

quantitatively — arithmetically — measurably — in numbers.

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