countable

Example Sentences

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The next word, "fünf," suggests something countable, excluding abstract ideas such as love or thirst.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026

In Washington state, your primary home is not usually a countable asset when calculating financial eligibility for Medicaid, particularly for long-term care.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 5, 2025

Because one can number these calculating machines, the computable numbers are necessarily countable.

From Scientific American • May 23, 2023

They assume, reasonably enough, that the side with more countable stuff is likely to be the winner — and quickly if it has a lot more as Russia indeed did.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2023

Even the rational numbers—the set of numbers that can be written as a/b for integers a and b—were countable.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife