ENUMERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enumeration mean? 

• ENUMERATION (noun)
  The noun ENUMERATION has 2 senses:

1. a numbered list

2. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

  Familiarity information: ENUMERATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENUMERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A numbered list

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

enumeration; numbering

Hypernyms ("enumeration" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Derivation:

enumerate (specify individually)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

count; counting; enumeration; numeration; reckoning; tally

Context example:

the counting continued for several hours

Hypernyms ("enumeration" is a kind of...):

investigating; investigation (the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enumeration"):

blood count (the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample)

census; nose count; nosecount (a periodic count of the population)

countdown (counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle))

miscount (an inaccurate count)

poll (the counting of votes (as in an election))

recount (an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election)

sperm count (the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate)

Derivation:

enumerate (determine the number or amount of)

 Context examples 

A data type comprised an enumeration of a set of unordered, quantitative simple values.

(Continuous Set Set Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)

Marianne assented most feelingly to the remark; and her mother was led by it to an enumeration of Colonel Brandon's injuries and merits, warm as friendship and design could unitedly dictate.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Little Em'ly had stopped and looked up at the sky in her enumeration of these articles, as if they were a glorious vision.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for purposes of population enumeration.

(Census Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

Spare us the enumeration! Au reste, we all know them: danger of bad example to innocence of childhood; distractions and consequent neglect of duty on the part of the attached—mutual alliance and reliance; confidence thence resulting—insolence accompanying—mutiny and general blow-up.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Every park has its beauty and its prospects; and Elizabeth saw much to be pleased with, though she could not be in such raptures as Mr. Collins expected the scene to inspire, and was but slightly affected by his enumeration of the windows in front of the house, and his relation of what the glazing altogether had originally cost Sir Lewis de Bourgh.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Promising to be with them the whole of the following morning, therefore, she closed the fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to Camden Place, there to spend the evening chiefly in listening to the busy arrangements of Elizabeth and Mrs Clay for the morrow's party, the frequent enumeration of the persons invited, and the continually improving detail of all the embellishments which were to make it the most completely elegant of its kind in Bath, while harassing herself with the never-ending question, of whether Captain Wentworth would come or not?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)