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Numeration (Noun)

Naming numbers.

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

The teacher explained the concept of numeration to her students, showing them how different cultures use different systems to name numbers.
The committee decided that the new building would be assigned a unique numeration for identification purposes.
In the field of mathematics, numeration refers to the act of assigning numbers to quantities in a specific order.
Children typically learn the numeration of the alphabet by reciting the names of the letters in order.
The library's cataloging system relies heavily on numeration to keep track of the books on the shelves.

The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours".

Nouns denoting acts or actions.

The students spent the entire class on the numeration of natural numbers up to a million.
Numeration began early in the morning to tabulate the large quantity of donated goods.
To pass the time during the lengthy drive, they started the numeration of different bird species.
Careful numeration was crucial to identify each floor during the search for trapped office workers.
Researchers devised an ingenious way for mentally performing arithmetic and sequential numeration with digits to replace slow machines.