countable

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
  2. (mathematics, of a set) finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
  3. (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
  4. (grammar, of a noun) Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers, and therefore having a plural form.
    In these extracts the word abuse is used in the sense of ‘an individual piece of invective’ or ‘an abusive comment’ and is clearly a countable noun. 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 112

noun

  1. (grammar) A countable noun.

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