Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers; countable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
denumeral .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective that can be counted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mathematics Capable of being assigned numbers from the
natural numbers . Especially applied to sets where finite sets and sets that have aone-to-one mapping to the natural numbers are called denumerable.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective that can be counted
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Negation phenomena (dgag-pa), such as denumerable voidness are merely conceptual categories (spyi, universals), and, as such, can only be known conceptually.
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Negation phenomena (dgag-pa), such as denumerable voidness are merely conceptual categories (spyi, universals), and, as such, can only be known conceptually.
Making Sense of Tantra ��� 7 Non-Gelug Variations Concerning General Tantra 2002
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The issues for the transition from classical to quantum physics comes down to counting; and even classical systems must ultimately come down to a denumerable set of states.
Evidence that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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They do not usually use the term to refer to the denumerable voidness of anything, its absolute absence of existing with true existence.
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As in Gelug, such practice avoids the shortcomings of bodhichitta as method, since the manners of cognitively taking space-like and illusion-like denumerable voidness are not contradictory.
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Karma and Shangpa Kagyu, in their presentations of tantra, use “self-voidness” exclusively for denumerable voidness.
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On the conceptual level, wisdom is the discriminating awareness of denumerable voidness; on the nonconceptual level, it is the deep awareness of nondenumerable voidness.
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Conceptual cognition, and only conceptual cognition, makes its object appear to exist in one of the four impossible manners that denumerable voidness is beyond.
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They are “denumerable” in the sense that they can be counted among what appears to minds validly cognizing phenomena through mentally labeling them with words and concepts.
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For ease of discussion, let us coin the terms denumerable voidness and nondenumerable voidness for these two.
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