Associations to the word «Decimalisation»

Wiktionary

DECIMALISATION, noun. Conversion to a decimal system.
DECIMALISATION, noun. Specifically, conversion of the currency of the United Kingdom in 1971 from pounds, shillings and pence to a decimal system in which one pound was worth 100 new pence (later renamed simply pence).

Dictionary definition

DECIMALISATION, noun. The act of changing to a decimal system; "the decimalization of British currency".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne