DECIMALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decimalize mean? 

• DECIMALIZE (verb)
  The verb DECIMALIZE has 2 senses:

1. change from fractions to decimals

2. change to the decimal system

  Familiarity information: DECIMALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECIMALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they decimalize    ... he / she / it decimalizes   
Past simple: decimalized   
Past participle: decimalized   
-ing form: decimalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change from fractions to decimals

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

decimalise; decimalize

Context example:

Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000

Hypernyms (to "decimalize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

decimal (a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10)

decimalization (the act of changing to a decimal system)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Change to the decimal system

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

decimalise; decimalize

Context example:

The country decimalized the currency in 1975

Hypernyms (to "decimalize" is one way to...):

change over; convert (change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

decimal (a number in the decimal system)

decimalization (the act of changing to a decimal system)