Definition

1. Verb (transitive):
   • To convert a system of measurement or currency to one based on units of ten.
   • To express a quantity or a price using a decimal notation, rather than fractions.

Usage and Examples

• Verb:
  • The government decided to decimalise the national currency to simplify calculations.
  • The stock exchange will decimalise share prices, quoting them in dollars and cents instead of fractions.

Advanced Usage

• "to decimalise a system": to overhaul an entire measurement or monetary system to base it on the decimal (base-10) principle.
  • The nation's project to decimalise its system of weights and measures took several years to complete.

Variants and Related Words

• Decimalisation (noun): The process of converting to a decimal system.
  • The decimalisation of British currency occurred in 1971.
• Decimal (adjective/noun): Relating to or based on the number ten; a fraction whose denominator is a power of ten, written with a decimal point.
  • The metric system is a decimal system of measurement.

Synonyms

• Convert to decimal
• Metrify (specifically for measurement systems)

Different Meanings

This word is specific and technical. Its core meaning relates to systemic conversion to a base-10 format. It does not have common idiomatic or significantly divergent meanings.

Phrasal Verbs

Not applicable. 'Decimalise' is not commonly used with particles to form phrasal verbs.

Related Idioms

Not applicable. There are no common idioms featuring the word 'decimalise'.

Verb

1. change to the decimal system
   • The country decimalized the currency in 1975
2. change from fractions to decimals
   • Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000