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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Capable of being counted.
  • adjective Mathematics Capable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with the positive integers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Accountable.
  • Capable of being counted, numbered, or reckoned.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being numbered.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective that can be counted

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to count + -able

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