Associations to the word «Decimalisation»
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Wiktionary
DECIMALISATION, noun. Conversion to a decimal system.
DECIMALISATION, noun. Specifically, conversion of the currency of the United Kingdom in 1971 from pounds, shillings and pence to a decimal system in which one pound was worth 100 new pence (later renamed simply pence).
Dictionary definition
DECIMALISATION, noun. The act of changing to a decimal system; "the decimalization of British currency".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.