Meaning

4 senses
  1. (not comparable)Capable of being counted; having a quantity.

    zählbar

    исчисли́мыйisčislímyj

    that can be counted

  2. (not comparable)Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.

  3. Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.

    (not comparable)Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.

    abzählbar

  4. (not comparable)Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.

    zählbar

    исчисля́емыйisčisljájemyj

    обчи́слювальнийobčýsljuvalʹnyj

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The set of prime numbers is countable.

    Множина простих чисел є зліченною. — deniko

    ruМножество простых чисел является исчисляемым. — naXa

    deDie Menge der Primzahlen ist abzählbar. — smichalek

  2. The indefinite article is used before countable nouns.

    ruНеопределённый артикль ставится перед исчисляемыми существительными. — Ooneykcall · CC BY 2.0 FR

  3. "Apple" is a countable noun, so it makes grammatical sense to have five apples.

    ru«Яблоко» – исчисляемое существительное, так что грамматически осмысленно иметь пять яблок. — Ooneykcall

    de"Apfel" ist ein zählbares Substantiv, also macht es grammatikalisch Sinn, fünf Äpfel zu haben. — Fingerhut

  4. It's a countable noun.

  5. In a Fréchet space, the countable intersection of open dense sets is itself dense.

    У просторі Фреше, зліченний перетин відкритих щільних множин є також щільним. — deniko

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
grammar: freely used with numbers and the definite article:
Русский
By meaning 2
capable of being counted, having a quantity:
grammar: freely used with numbers and the definite article:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
capable of being counted, having a quantity:
math: having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers:

Origin

From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.

From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.

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