countable
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/ / [ˈkʰãʊ̯̃n.(ɾ)ə.bɫ̩]
adj
Etymology: From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
- Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
- Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
- Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
- 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.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
- A noun that is countable.