Noun
The conversion of a noncountable noun to a countable noun form.
Usage- Rare
- Uncountable
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1969, The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project With some mass and abstract nouns, "countification" is accompanied by a shift of meaning: paper (SC papir) vs. a paper (SC novine, dokument)...
The use of A with GRAIN gives the class membership of the item and illustrates the "countification" of mass nouns, with the deletion of the understood "type(s) of."
The countification of e-mail mirrors some other recent developments in tech-talk.