enumeration
pronunciation
How to pronounce enumeration in British English:
UK [ɪˌnju:mə'reɪʃn]
How to pronounce enumeration in American English:
US [ɪˌnjumə'reɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- a numbered list
- the act of counting
Word Origin
- enumeration (n.)
- 1550s, "action of enumerating," from Middle French énumération, from Latin enumerationem (nominative enumeratio) "a counting up," noun of action from past participle stem of enumerare "to reckon up, count over, enumerate," from assimilated form of ex- "from" (see ex-) + numerare "to count, number," from numerus "number" (see number (n.)). Meaning "a list, catalogue" is from 1724.
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Example
- 1. Use depthimageformat enumeration to choose the data format .
- 2. A further deficiency in the system is that it gives only a historical description of thought , and a mere enumeration of the factors of consciousness .
- 3. You 'll often want to give your enumeration values human readable names , as we did here .
- 4. The output above also demonstrated that every value in an enumeration is automatically assigned a numeric identifier , unless you call one of the value methods where you specify your own id value explicitly .
- 5. In fact , scala 's enumeration class supports the usual methods for working with collections , so we can easily iterate through the breeds with a for loop and filter them by name .