Meaning

(obsolete) Increase; enlargement..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

there be five ways (in general) of majoration in sounds: inclosure simple; inclosure with dilatation; communication; reflexion concurrent; and approach to the sensory.

[…] we could in Theorem 5.1.5 (respectively, Theorem 5.1.10) require only the continuity condition if we strengthened the majoration condition (respectively, local majoration condition) to the strict majoration condition (respectively, local strict majoration condition).

First, the majoration conditions X.1.57(c) in [16] and M(c) in [6] are quite restrictive.

The appraiser advanced the item for majoration from 10 per cent to 15 per cent because the exporter had added 15 per cent majoration to some other invoices. An official of the exporting company explained that the difference in majoration was accounted for not on account of the quantity sold but by reason of the differences in the articles sold each purchaser requiring a different kind and a different quality of merchandise, and also on account of varying dates when complete and exact ascertainments of costs had theretofore been made.

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• majorations

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Use majoration when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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