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enumeration en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɪˌnjuːməˈɹeɪʃən/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɪˌnuːməˈɹeɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle French énumeration (French énumération). By surface analysis, enumerate + -ion.

Meanings

  1. The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
  2. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
  3. A list; especially, a numbered list.
    • using the serial comma in enumerations
  4. A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
  5. A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.
    • In Ada, enumeration literals are allowed to appear in more than one declaration in the same referencing environment. 2010, Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Addison-Wesley Longman, page 261:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
enumerations Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

scoped enumeration · underenumeration · enumeration comma

Relateds

enumerate

Synonyms

telling · enumeration · numbering · citation · numeration · telling · numbering · listing · counting · enum

Translations (25)

fi luetelma (programming: kind of data type) · ja 列挙 (the act of enumerating) · nl opsomming (the act of enumerating) · it enumerazione (the act of enumerating) · de Auflistung (the act of enumerating) · ga ríomh (the act of enumerating) · es enumeración (the act of enumerating) · ko 나열 (the act of enumerating) · fi lueteltu tyyppi (programming: kind of data type) · fi luettelu (the act of enumerating) · de Aufzählen (the act of enumerating) · tl sabilang (the act of enumerating) · izh numeratsia (the act of enumerating) · hy թվարկում (the act of enumerating) · ko 열거형 (programming: kind of data type) · de Aufzählung (the act of enumerating) · de Auflisten (the act of enumerating) · fr énumération (the act of enumerating) · ja 列挙型 (programming: kind of data type) · fa رنامیدن (the act of enumerating) · hy թվարկություն (the act of enumerating) · pt enumeração (programming: kind of data type) · ru перечисле́ние (the act of enumerating) · ko 열거 (the act of enumerating) · pt enumeração (the act of enumerating)