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  • adjective Capable of being numbered or counted.

Etymologies

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number +‎ -able

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Examples

  • “Less” rather than “fewer” when talking about that which is discrete or numberable always grates on my ear.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Horace Comes to Law School: 2009

  • It's certainly no more of a waste of time than regularly appearing on game shows, writing books, sitting on the boards of companies or any of the other numberable things that other MPs that aren't directly part of their jobs.

    A lion has eaten our Oaten 2006

  • But in so many senses, the facilities are not as numberable as you would want to have them.

    CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2007 2007

  • Repeatedly, he took pure well water which was bare of animal life, and put into it a few cholera germs; they always began to propagate at once, and always within six hours they swarmed -- and were numberable by millions upon millions.

    Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

  • Repeatedly, he took pure well water which was bare of animal life, and put into it a few cholera germs; they always began to propagate at once, and always within six hours they swarmed -- and were numberable by millions upon millions.

    Following the Equator, Part 6 Mark Twain 1872

  • Merely the numberable packages of meat and bones in it called by courtesy men and women?

    The American Claimant Mark Twain 1872

  • DE0005493704 Type of transaction: Transfer (addition) Date: 02.01.2009 Price: not numberable Currency: EUR No. of items: 1348500 Total amount traded: n / a Place: over the counter

    finanztreff.de / TICKER 2009

  • DE0006911902 Type of transaction: Granting of stock options Date: 02.06.2009 Price: not numberable Currency: EUR No. of items: 8500 Total amount traded: 8500 Place: over the counter

    finanztreff.de / TICKER 2009

  • DE0005250401 Type of transaction: Exchange of stock Date: 31.08.2008 Price: not numberable Currency: EUR No. of items: 2117 Total amount traded: Place: over the counter

    finanztreff.de / TICKER 2008

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