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decimalisations

decimalisations is the plural of decimalisation.

Meaning of decimalisation

Noun

decimalisation (usually uncountable, plural decimalisations)

  1. (usually) Conversion to a decimal system.
    • In these days of decimalization and metrication it is a pity that SI units were not used as this will date a very useful little book prematurely.1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, →DOI, page 603
  2. (usually) Specifically, conversion of the currencies of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1971 from pounds, shillings and pence to a decimal system in which one pound was worth 100 new pence (later renamed simply pence).

Questions about decimalisations

What is decimalisations the plural of?
Decimalisations is the plural of decimalisation.

Words near decimalisations in the dictionary

  1. decimal time
  2. decimaled
  3. decimalic
  4. decimaling
  5. decimalisation
  6. decimalisations
  7. decimalise
  8. decimalised
  9. decimalises
  10. decimalising
  11. decimalism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decimalisations (page history and authors); decimalisation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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