enumeration

Etymology

From Middle French énumération.

noun

  1. The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
  2. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
  3. A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
  4. (programming) A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.
    In Ada, enumeration literals are allowed to appear in more than one declaration in the same referencing environment. 2010, Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, Addison-Wesley Longman, page 261

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