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countable

adj
/ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl//ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/US

Etymology

From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.

  1. inherited from countable

Definitions

  1. Capable of being counted

    Capable of being counted; having a quantity.

  2. Finite or countably infinite

    Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.

  3. 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.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A noun that is countable.

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Derived

axiom of countable choice, countability, countable additivity, countableness, countable noun, countable set, countably, noncountable, second-countable, subcountable, uncountable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at countable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at countable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at countable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA