countable - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
- IPA(key): /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/, [ˈkʰãʊ̯̃n.(ɾ)ə.bɫ̩]
- Rhymes: -aʊntəbəl
- Hyphenation: count‧a‧ble
countable (not comparable)
- Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
- Antonyms: uncountable, countless, numberless, innumerable; see also Thesaurus:innumerable
- (mathematics, of a set) Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
- Antonyms: uncountable, infinite
- Hypernyms: finite, countably infinite
- (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
- Synonym: denumerable
- Antonyms: uncountable, non-denumerable
- (grammar, of a noun) Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.
- Synonym: count
- Antonyms: uncountable, noncount, non-count
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 112:
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.
- The mathematics sense by which finite sets are countable is more common than the sense by which finite sets are not countable. To avoid ambiguity, the terms at most countable or countably infinite may be used.
capable of being counted, having a quantity
- Bulgarian: изброим (bg) (izbroim)
- Catalan: comptable (ca)
- Czech: spočitatelný
- Danish: tællelig (da)
- Dutch: telbaar (nl), telbare (nl)
- Finnish: numeroituva (fi)
- French: dénombrable (fr)
- Galician: contábel (gl) m or f
- Georgian: თვლადი (tvladi), გამოთვლადი (gamotvladi)
- German: zählbar (de)
- Hindi: गणनीय (hi) (gaṇnīya)
- Hungarian: megszámlálható (hu)
- Indonesian: terhitung (id)
- Italian: enumerabile
- Japanese: 数えられる (kazoerareru)
- Manx: yn-choontey
- Persian: شمارشپذیر
- Portuguese: enumerável, contável (pt)
- Romanian: numărabil (ro)
- Russian: исчисли́мый (ru) (isčislímyj)
- Slovene: števen
- Spanish: contable (es)
- Swedish: räknebar (sv), räknelig (sv)
- Walloon: contåve (wa)
- Welsh: rhifadwy (cy)
math: having a bijection with the natural numbers
grammar: freely used with numbers and the definite article
- Arabic: مَعْدُود (maʕdūd)
- Belarusian: выліча́льны (vyličálʹny)
- Bulgarian: броим (bg) (broim)
- Chinese:
- Czech: počitatelný (cs) m
- Dutch: telbaar (nl), telbare (nl)
- Estonian: loenduv
- Finnish: luvullinen
- French: dénombrable (fr)
- Galician: contábel (gl) m or f
- Georgian: თვლადი (tvladi)
- German: zählbar (de)
- Hungarian: megszámlálható (hu), számszerű (hu)
- Italian: numerabile (it)
- Japanese: 可算 (ja) (かさん, kasan)
- Polish: policzalny (pl)
- Portuguese: contável (pt)
- Russian: исчисля́емый (ru) (isčisljájemyj)
- Slovene: števen
- Swedish: räknebar (sv)
- Ukrainian: обчи́слювальний (občýsljuvalʹnyj)
countable (plural countables)
- (grammar) A noun that is countable.
- Synonyms: count noun, countable noun
- Antonyms: uncountable, mass noun, noncount noun, non-count noun, uncountable noun