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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 a one-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

[From denumerate, to count, from Late Latin dēnumerāre, dēnumerāt-, alteration of Latin dīnumerāre : dī-, dis-, dis- + numerāre, to number; see numerate.]

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