Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
Section V. Number
1. Number, in the Abstract

85. Numeration.

   NOUN:NUMERATION; numbering &c. v.; pagination; tale, tally, telling [archaic], recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation, supputation [obs.]; calculation, calculus; algorithm [obs.], algorism, rhabdology, dactylonomy; measurement [See Measurement]; statistics, logistics.
  arithmetic, analysis, algebra, fluxions; differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus; calculus of differences.
  [STATISTICS] dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation; account (list) [See List].
  [OPERATIONS] notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, proportion, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots, reduction, involution, evolution, approximation, interpolation, differentiation, integration, indigitation [rare].
  [INSTRUMENTS] abacus, suan pan, logometer, sliding rule, tallies, Napier’s bones, calculating machine, difference engine; adding machine; cash register.
  ARITHMETICIAN, calculator, geodesist, abacist; algebraist, geometrician, trigonometrician, mathematician, actuary, statistician.
   VERB:NUMBER, count, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, call the roll, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, reckon, reckon up, estimate, make an estimate, furnish an estimate, make up accounts, compute, calculate, suppute [obs.], add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots, algebraize, “tell his tale” [Milton].
  CHECK, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock.
  PAGE, affix numbers to, foliate, paginate.
  AMOUNT TO, come to, total.
   ADJECTIVE:NUMERAL, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, countable, reckonable, numberable, computable, calculable, rhabdological; commensurable, commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate.