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adjective (wikipedia, mul=Countable set, Countable noun)
- Capable of being counted; having a quantity or a numerical attribute.
- (math) Having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers.
- (math) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
- (linguistics) 1914 Describes a noun which can be freely used with the definite article and with numbers, and which therefore has a plural form. (cf. mass noun uncountable, plurale tantum)
Translations: - Dutch: telbaar, telbare
- French: dénombrable
- Italian: numerabile
(trans-mid)
- German: abzí¤hlbar
Etymology: countVerb, to count + -ableEnglish, -able
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