decimalize v 1: change from fractions to decimals; "Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000" [syn: {decimalize}, {decimalise}] 2: change to the decimal system; "The country decimalized the currency in 1975" [syn: {decimalize}, {decimalise}]
Decimalize \Dec"i*mal*ize\, v. t. to convert the dominant units of measure (e.g. of currency) to a decimal-based system; to reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. -- {Dec`i*mal*i*za"tion}, n. [1913 Webster]