countable.

1. Capable of being counted as distinct units.

2. Admitting ordinary singular and plural forms and association with numbers in the relevant noun use.

3. Finite or capable of one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers.

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• countable items
• countable units

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The inventory contained countable items after duplicates were removed.

The material was divided into countable units for the comparison.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally relational or categorical; comparison only where the particular property admits gradation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: formal properties, scope and scale, organizational relations, analytic representation. Disciplines: academic writing, formal methods, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.