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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