countable — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Capable of being counted; having a quantity.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable

   Antonyme

   uncountablecountlessnumberlessinnumerable

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

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable
   • of a set

   Antonyme

   uncountableinfinite

   Oberbegriffe

   finitecountably infinite

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

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable
   • of a set

   Synonyme

   denumerable

   Antonyme

   non-denumerable

4. Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.

   Gebrauch

   • not-comparable
   • of a noun

   Synonyme

   count

   Antonyme

   uncountablenoncountnon-count

   Beispiele

   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.

Substantiv

1. A noun that is countable.

   Synonyme

   count nouncountable noun

   Antonyme

   uncountablemass nounnoncount nounnon-count noununcountable noun

   Verwandte Wörter

   denumerabilityenumerabilitymass nounplurale tantumuniversal grinderuniversal packageruniversal sorter

Adjektiv

1. that can be counted

   Synonyme

   denumerableenumerablenumerable

   Beispiele

   countable sins

   numerable assets