enumeration
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See also: énumération
English
Etymology
From Middle French énumération.
Pronunciation
Noun
enumeration (plural enumerations)
- The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
- Synonyms: listing, numbering, telling; see also Thesaurus:counting
- A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
- A list; especially, a numbered list.
- using the serial comma in enumerations
- A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
- (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.
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Translations
the act of enumerating
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