enumerable

[ ih-noo-mer-uh-buhl, ih-nyoo- ]

adjective

1. countable ( def 2b ).

Other Words From

• e·numer·a·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of enumerable¹

First recorded in 1885–90; enumer(ate) + -able

Example Sentences

DeVincentis remembered his friend as “a superfan of enumerable scenes” who was “simply obsessed with movies.”

From Los Angeles Times

There is a clear philosophical position, even a worldview, behind all of this: that the world is in principle perfectly knowable, its contents enumerable and their relations capable of being meaningfully encoded in a technical system, without bias or distortion.

From The Guardian

A problem of a wholly different nature is connected with the possible purchase by the man with an unlimited income of an enumerable infinity of pairs of boots.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus there are an enumerable infinity of boots, but the number of the socks cannot be determined without admitting the axiom mentioned above.

From Project Gutenberg

The problem: Does each non-recursive, recursively enumerable set have the property that every recursively enumerable set is recursive in it?

From Time Magazine Archive