Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being counted.
- adjective Mathematics Capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Accountable.
- Capable of being counted, numbered, or reckoned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being numbered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
counted ; having aquantity or a numerical attribute. - adjective mathematics, of a set Having a
bijection with a subset of thenatural numbers . - adjective mathematics, of a set
Countably infinite ; having a bijection with thenatural numbers . - adjective grammar, of a noun Freely usable with the
indefinite article and with numbers, and therefore having aplural form.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective that can be counted
Etymologies
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Examples
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The usage is therefore uncountable rather than countable, which is why 'fewer' sounds odd and 'less' would be the preferred option.
Archive 2007-09-01 DC 2007
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The usage is therefore uncountable rather than countable, which is why 'fewer' sounds odd and 'less' would be the preferred option.
On less months DC 2007
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Sets that have cardinality Aleph-naught are said to be "countably infinite", whereas sets with higher cardinalities are not "countable".
Every Day Should Be Saturday Spencer Hall 2010
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Sets that have cardinality Aleph-naught are said to be "countably infinite", whereas sets with higher cardinalities are not "countable".
Every Day Should Be Saturday Spencer Hall 2010
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We didn't have to wait long before the cars were out on track again and I got the 'countable' road course race under my belt.
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We didn't have to wait long before the cars were out on track again and I got the 'countable' road course race under my belt.
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Their home will not be a "countable" asset, as long as she resides there.
unknown title 2009
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"countable" by any stretch of my imagination; on the other hand, if I am to hold myself to things which are strictly "countable," I would be doing a huge disservice to the kids I'm trying to educate.
OpEdNews 2010
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But in this video love is a countable noun and book is uncountable.
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When a group is made up of countable objects, it's not "less", it's "fewer".
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