countable

English

Etymology

to count + -able

Adjective

Wikipedia Wikipedia

countable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being counted; having a quantity or a numerical attribute.
2. (mathematics, of a set) Having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers.
3. (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
4. (grammar, of a noun) Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers, and therefore having a plural form.

Synonyms

• (having a bijection with a subset...): denumerable

Antonyms

• uncountable

Hyponyms

• (having a bijection with a subset...): finite
• (having a bijection with a subset...): countably infinite

Hypernyms

• (countably infinite): infinite

Derived terms

• countable noun
• countable set
• countable additivity

Related terms

• countability

Translations

capable of being counted

Czech: spočitatelný (cs) Dutch: telbaar, telbare French: dénombrable (fr) German: zählbar (de) Hungarian: megszámlálható (hu) Italian: enumerabile (it)

Manx: yn-choontey (gv) Romanian: numărabil (ro) m. and n. Russian: исчислимый (ru) (isčislímyj) Slovene: števen m., števna f., števno n. Spanish: contable (es) Welsh: rhifadwy (cy)

having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers

Czech: spočetný (cs) m. Dutch: aftelbaar (nl) Finnish: numeroituva (fi) French: dénombrable (fr) German: abzählbar (de) Hungarian: megszámlálható (hu)

Italian: finito o numerabile, contabile (uncommon anglicism) Polish: przeliczalny (pl) Slovene: števen m., števna f., števno n. Spanish: numerable (es) Swedish: uppräknelig (sv)

freely used with numbers and the definite article

Chinese: Mandarin: 可數 (zh), 可数 (zh) (kěshǔ) Czech: počitatelný (cs) m. Dutch: telbaar, telbare Estonian: loenduv French: dénombrable (fr) German: zählbar (de)

Hungarian: megszámlálható (hu) Italian: numerabile (it) Japanese: 可算 (ja) (かさん, kasan) Russian: исчисляемый (ru) (isčisljájemyj) Slovene: števen m., števna f., števno n. Swedish: räknebar (sv)

See also

• mass noun
• plurale tantum