- countable
- adjective
Date: 1581
capable of being counted; especially capable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers <a countable set> • countability noun • countably adverb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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Countable — Count a*ble ( ? b l), a. Capable of being numbered. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
countable — index appreciable, determinable (ascertainable) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
countable — [ˈkaʊntəb(ə)l] adj linguistics a countable noun is a noun that has a plural and can be used after ‘a when it is singular. Countable nouns are marked ‘[C] in this dictionary Ant: uncountable … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
countable — adj. Countable is used with these nouns: ↑noun … Collocations dictionary
countable — count|a|ble [ kauntəbl ] adjective LINGUISTICS a countable noun is a noun that has a plural and can be used after a when it is singular … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
countable — adjective a countable noun has both a singular and a plural form see also: count noun, compare uncountable … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
countable — UK [ˈkaʊntəb(ə)l] / US adjective linguistics a countable noun is a noun that has a plural and can be used after a when it is singular … English dictionary
countable — /ˈkaʊntəbəl/ (say kowntuhbuhl) adjective 1. able to be counted. 2. Mathematics of or relating to a set whose elements can be arranged in an infinite sequence so that each element occurs exactly once: the set of positive integers is a countable… …
countable — Ⅰ. count [1] ► VERB 1) determine the total number of. 2) recite numbers in ascending order. 3) take into account; include. 4) regard or be regarded as possessing a quality or fulfilling a role: people she had counted as her friends. 5) be… … English terms dictionary
Countable set — Countable redirects here. For the linguistic concept, see Count noun. Not to be confused with (recursively) enumerable sets. In mathematics, a countable set is a set with the same cardinality (number of elements) as some subset of the set of… … Wikipedia
