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indexicalisation

indexicalisation noun: the act or process of indicating; an indication.

Noun

indexicalisation (plural indexicalisations)

  1. The act or process of indicating; an indication.
    • While this might seem a plausible figure and an indexicalisation of the global importance of this term, the inflated number is not trustworthy, and the actual number would have been much lower.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-wide, page 15

Forms of indexicalisation

pluralindexicalisations

Origin of indexicalisation

From indexical + -isation.

Questions about indexicalisation

What does indexicalisation mean?
Indexicalisation means the act or process of indicating; an indication.
What part of speech is indexicalisation?
Indexicalisation is a noun.
What is the plural of indexicalisation?
The plural of indexicalisation is indexicalisations.

Words near indexicalisation in the dictionary

  1. indexer
  2. indexers
  3. indexes
  4. indexic
  5. indexical
  6. indexicalisation
  7. indexicalisations
  8. indexicalism
  9. indexicalist
  10. indexicalities
  11. indexicality

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