Denumerable

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of being assigned a bijection to the natural numbers. Applied to sets which are not finite, but have a one-to-one mapping to the natural numbers. not-comparable

    "The empty set is not denumerable because it is finite; the rational numbers are, surprisingly, denumerable because every possible fraction can be assigned a natural number and vice versa."

Adjective
  1. 1
    that can be counted wordnet

Etymology

The word was introduced around the beginning of the 20th century, from Latin denumerō (“to count out”) + -able.

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