Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being counted; countable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being numerated, counted, or reckoned.
- In mathematics, capable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the elements of a progression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being numbered or counted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
counted ;countable . - adjective mathematics In one to one correspondence with the set of natural integers.
- adjective comparable, nonstandard
numerous
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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There were numerable red flags, starting in 2002, that the bank never sought to pin down.
Robert Lenzner: JP Morgan May Be Complicit in Madoff Scam Robert Lenzner 2011
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There were numerable red flags, starting in 2002, that the bank never sought to pin down.
Robert Lenzner: JP Morgan May Be Complicit in Madoff Scam Robert Lenzner 2011
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Once the Microsoft product was copied, Microsoft would have to enforce a privately funded lawsuit, with a private contract court, for any of numerable groups that may be legally copying their product, but violating a private contract twice removed from Microsoft's control.
Libertarian Redistribution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Actors were able to show numerable expressions through the prosthetic devices they wore - an important ability because it meant the difference between watching serious social commentary or watching a cheesy ape B-movie.
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On a cast and blast day, numerable 20 inch browns were caught.
Winter fishing in Wyidaho Tim Romano 2007
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Mark Soifer, one of the nation'seading publicists, is director of special events and promotion for Ocean City, N.J. His work has brought national media to the resort city to report about the annual Doo-Dah parade, the Miss Crustacean Contest, Martin Z. Mollusk Day (where a hermit crab checks his shadow to determine if summer is coming early), and numerable other suntime fun events.
The Ultimate Epithet: The Grandmother Who Climbed a Fence to Fight for Union Workers 2009
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Also warmer environments will attract those with not much to lose, the homeless are more numerable in warmer environs.
"Did Socialized Medicine Kill Natasha Richardson?" Ann Althouse 2009
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In our situation the money did help as I did not need any child care but the tole on our home life was quite numerable.
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Williamson said after numerable meetings with the two sides, the situation in Abyei remained unresolved.
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"There are numerable side-effects of corruption; for instance, it kills trust - in the government, public institutions and companies; it kills development - by stealing public money needed for schools, hospitals, and roads; and it steals financial prosperity - by driving business's into the shadow economy."
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