Associations to the word «Decimalize»

Wiktionary

DECIMALIZE, verb. (transitive) (intransitive): To convert to the decimal system.

Dictionary definition

DECIMALIZE, verb. Change from fractions to decimals; "Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000".
DECIMALIZE, verb. Change to the decimal system; "The country decimalized the currency in 1975".

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.
William Butler Yeats