countable
nounEtymology From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A noun that is countable.
countable
adjUS /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/
Etymology From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
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Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
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Mathematics, Sciences Of a set Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
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Mathematics, Sciences Of a set Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of a noun Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.
- In these extracts the word abuse is used in the sense of ‘an individual piece of invective’ or ‘an abusive comment’ and is clearly a countable noun.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 112:
- Derived terms
- axiom of countable choice, countability, countable additivity, countableness, countable noun, countable set, countably, noncountable, second-countable, subcountable, uncountable
- Related terms
- countability