'Decimalize' definitions:
Definition of 'decimalize'
From: WordNet
verb
Change from fractions to decimals; "Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000" [syn: decimalize, decimalise]
verb
Change to the decimal system; "The country decimalized the currency in 1975" [syn: decimalize, decimalise]
Definition of 'Decimalize'
From: GCIDE
- Decimalize \Dec"i*mal*ize\, v. t. to convert the dominant units of measure (e.g. of currency) to a decimal-based system; to reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. -- {Dec`i*mal*i*za"tion}, n. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Decimalize'
- Decimal,
- Decimalization,
- Decimally,
- Decimate,
- Decimated,
- Decimating,
- Decimation,
- Decimator,
- decimalism,
- Circulating decimal,
- Circulatory decimal,
- Decimal arithmetic,
- Decimal fraction,
- Decimal point,
- Recurring decimal,
- Repeating decimal,
- decimal candle,
- decimal digit,
- decimal notation,
- decimal system,
- decimal number system,
- decimal numeration system,
- decimal system of classification,
- dewey decimal classification,
- dewey decimal system