Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Denomination"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Denomination \De*nom`i*na"tion\, n. [L. denominatio metonymy:
cf. F. d['e]nomination a naming.]
1. The act of naming or designating.

2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an
epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a
general name indicating a class of like individuals; a
category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands,
or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.

Those [qualities] which are classed under the
denomination of sublime. --Burke.

3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same
name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.

Syn: Name; appellation; title. See {Name}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

denomination
n 1: a group of religious congregations having its own
organization and a distinctive faith
2: a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or
measures or weights or money: "he flashed a fistful of
bills of large denominations"
3: identifying word or words by which someone or something is
called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: {appellation},
{designation}, {appellative}]


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