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countable

countable

1 2.9
Present as separate things you can number, like an apple or a book
  • adjective
  • /ˈkaʊntəbl/
: contable
  • When preparing the report, make sure to list each countable expense separately.

But Turing proved that the set of computable functions is countable.

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Examples

  • These characteristics enable the organization and experiencing of time as quantitative, and of its durations as exactly divisible, measurable, countable, and therefore comparable.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The growing importance of numbers in 19th-century colonial contexts was in their ability to provide countable abstractions, to convey large bodies of information, and to enable bureaucratic controls.

    Academic text (2010)

  • So any actual sum is not only countable, it's actually finite.

    Robinson Erhardt

  • And that was the key thing, changing time from a continuous flow into a series of equal countable chunks.

  • The integers are composed of a countable infinity of points.

    Blog text (22)

  • Generally, trust assets or income are considered countable to the extent they are available to a Medicaid applicant or spouse.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The countable plates (100-300 colonies) were used to determine the total (CFU/mL) culturable bacteria present in the water samples.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Content analysis is an empirical approach that identifies countable units in a text, e.g., the number of women in high-status occupations, and then infers meanings and values from the patterns.

    Academic text (1996)

  • You can have five apples, which makes them countable items.

  • In mathematics, the set of natural numbers is an example of a countable set.

Synonyms

enumerable
vscountable
1 7.3

Can be counted one by one

shares the same meaning but is more general in use
numerable
vscountable
1 6.2

Can be counted, like people or objects

has identical meaning but is the common everyday term
denumerable
vscountable
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A group of things that can be counted in a list like 1, 2, 3

is the standard everyday term not limited to mathematics

Antonyms

uncountable
4 4.6

So many that you cannot count them one by one

How Countable

countable
1 2.9
numerable
1 6.2
innumerable
20 5.4
uncountable
4 4.6

Surface Forms

countable positive

Morphology

countable = count (transparent) = count + able

The word 'countable' is transparently derived from 'count' with the addition of the suffix '-able', indicating capability.

Etymology

The word countable comes from the verb count, which comes from an old word meaning 'to add up', and the part -able means 'can be'. So countable means 'can be counted', like apples or books you can list one by one.