enumeration

See also: énumération

English

Etymology

From Middle French énumération.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• IPA^(key): /ɪˌnjuːməˈɹeɪʃən/, /ɪˌnuːməˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

enumeration (plural enumerations)

1. The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.

   Synonyms: listing, numbering, telling; see also Thesaurus:counting

2. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
3. A list; especially, a numbered list.

   using the serial comma in enumerations

4. A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
5. (programming) A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.

   Synonym: enum

   • 2010, Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Addison-Wesley Longman, page 261:

     In Ada, enumeration literals are allowed to appear in more than one declaration in the same referencing environment.

Derived terms

• scoped enumeration

Related terms

• enumerate

Translations

the act of enumerating

• Armenian: թվարկում (hy) (tʻvarkum), թվարկություն (hy) (tʻvarkutʻyun)
• Dutch: opsomming (nl) f
• Finnish: luettelu
• French: énumération (fr) f
• Ingrian: numeratsia
• Irish: ríomh m
• Italian: enumerazione (it) f
• Korean: 열거 (ko) (yeolgeo), 나열 (ko) (nayeol)
• Persian: رنامیدن
• Portuguese: enumeração (pt) f
• Russian: перечисле́ние (ru) n (perečislénije)
• Spanish: enumeración (es) f
• Tagalog: sabilang

programming: kind of data type

• Finnish: luetelma, lueteltu tyyppi

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