countable
Collocations
3ADJ.
open, prime, used
COUNTABLE + NOUN
intersection, noun, nouns
ADV.
clearly
Definitions
adj
Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.
In these extracts the word abuse is used in the sense of ‘an individual piece of invective’ or ‘an abusive comment’ and is clearly a countable noun.
noun
A noun that is countable.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — that can be counted
- denumerable
- enumerable
- numerable
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6In these extracts the word abuse is used in the sense of ‘an individual piece of invective’ or ‘an abusive comment’ and is clearly a countable noun.
Wiktionary"Apple" is a countable noun, so it makes grammatical sense to have five apples.
Tatoeba · #812034"Happiness" is not a countable noun. It would make no sense to have 18 happinesses.
Tatoeba · #812036The set of prime numbers is countable.
Tatoeba · #812045In a Fréchet space, the countable intersection of open dense sets is itself dense.
Tatoeba · #1522093The indefinite article is used before countable nouns.
Tatoeba · #9934956