Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of enumerating. The act of counting; a numbering.
- n. An account of a number of things in which detailed mention is made of particular articles.
- n. In rhetoric, a recapitulation of the principal points or heads of a discourse or argument. The enumeration or recapitulation is the most important part of the epilogue or peroration, and sometimes occupies the whole of it. Also called
anacephalæosis . Seeepanodos . - n. In logic, abscissio infiniti (which see); the method of exclusions.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
- n. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
- n. A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
- n. computing A set of named constants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
- n. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
- n. (Rhet.) A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a numbered list
- n. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
Examples
“Does she think this enumeration is an adequate summation of the essence of her day?”
“Note 20: Bellew's enumeration is quoted in MacGregor, pp. 505 – 7.”
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
“No; large institutions are not, so far as I am aware, subject to the First Amendment; unless we are talking about governmental institutions, in which case their separate enumeration is unnecessary.”
“The apparent enumeration is in fact a foreclosure which acquires, by the same token, considerable critical power.”
“One can validly juxtapose here De Man's conclusion about the occurrence of the word anthropomorphism in Nietzsche's list: "The apparent enumeration is in fact a foreclosure" (241).”
“The apparent enumeration is in fact a foreclosure which acquires, by the same token, considerable rhetorical power.”
“One would guess that the second enumeration is mistaken on this count.”
“The last element in this hasty enumeration is the collapse of all the philosophical and historical hypotheses that claimed to reveal the laws governing the course of history.”
“Next in enumeration we have 988,721 of Irish origin, another grievance for Ireland!”
“This enumeration is evidently designed to convey an impression of universality [Baumgarten].”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘enumeration’.
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Interesting words
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GRE Study guide
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Previous GRE
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Programming
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Out of Book Words
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My GRE
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Phallic Words
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phil vocab 2
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bioinformatics and bioengineering words
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Invisible Man
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hypothesis / formulation
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Words I learned doing my AP Gov Assig...
I had a summer assignment for AP Government and there were A LOT of words I had to look up.... I wasn't even aware some of these words existed...
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