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Noun: denomination  di,nó-mu'ney-shun
  1. A group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
    "Baptists and Methodists are examples of Protestant denominations"
     
  2. A class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers, measures, 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
    "The denomination 'sedan' refers to a specific type of car";
    - appellation, designation, appellative

Derived forms: denominations

Type of: category, class, family, name, NGO, nongovernmental organisation [Brit], nongovernmental organization

Encyclopedia: Denomination