English Explanatory Dictionary

majoration

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Increase; enlargement.
  2. The establishment of conditions for an upper bound of an expression.
  3. A markup on an import or export.

Word forms

majoration majorations

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin maiōrātiō, from maiōrō (“to augment”), from Latin maior. By surface analysis, majorate + -ion. Compare French majoration.

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