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enumeration

[ ih-noo-muh-rey-shuhn, ih-nyoo- ]

noun

  1. an act of enumerating.
  2. a catalog or list.


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Other Words From

  • pree·numer·ation noun
  • ree·numer·ation noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of enumeration1

First recorded in 1545–55, enumeration is from the Latin word ēnumerātiōn- (stem of ēnumerātiō ). See enumerate, -ion
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Example Sentences

We have better statistical models at our disposal now, better things we can use to get a more accurate enumeration of the population.

From Salon

Emmy Thelander, an artist and adjunct professor at City University of New York, said it wasn’t the job’s requirements but their obsessive enumeration that was hardest to swallow.

There are moments when his detailed enumeration of geographic calamities reads like David Wallace-Wells’ “The Uninhabitable Earth,” while some of the procedural stuff comes across like a forward-projected version of Nathaniel Rich’s “Losing Earth.”

The Ninth Amendment states that the “enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

Constitution that mandates an “actual enumeration” of the U.S. population every 10 years.

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