Denumerate
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To assign a bijection from a denumerable set to the natural numbers.
"To such as know that it is impossible to denumerate the points of a continuum, that is, to set up a one-to-one correspondence between, say, the points of a unit-line and the integers, Zermelo's result is apt to be surprising, ..."
- 2 To list; to enumerate. broadly
"By the first (which is made at corpus) is commemorated the cold and stiffs extension of the body of Iesus Christ: which according to the saying of the prophet was such, that they might denumerate all his bones."
- 3 To determine the magnitude of; to provide an upper bound on the number or rank of.
"Industrial utilization of weather modification is a factor undiminished in its latent potential, a factor the potential economic magnitude of which has, like infinity, ascended above every attempt to denumerate it."
- 4 To indicate an unspecified number.
"Alternatively, mass and count nouns may be distinguished according to syntactic criteria. Count nouns may take an indefinite article (a car), may be pluralized (three cars), and take quantifiers that denumerate (many cars), whereas mass nouns cannot take an indefinite article (*a honey), cannot be pluralized (*three honey), and take only quantifiers that denumerate (much honey)."
- 1 Involving the process of denumerating. not-comparable
"I have already calculated and discussed the agnates of the denumerate form of ..."
- 2 uncountable. not-comparable
"I might go on indefinitely on denumerate benefits that arise from co-operation, but these I have already mentioned will form a good working platform for years to come."
Example
More examples"To such as know that it is impossible to denumerate the points of a continuum, that is, to set up a one-to-one correspondence between, say, the points of a unit-line and the integers, Zermelo's result is apt to be surprising, ..."