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denumerable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
de-nu-mer-able
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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.

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

Word Breakdown

Derived Forms

denumerability denumerably indenumerable nondenumerable

Phrases

non-denumerable countable set uncountable set

Frequently Paired Words

countable set uncountable set enumerable

Synonyms

countable countably infinite enumerable numerable

Questions

What does denumerable mean?
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.
Where does denumerable come from?
The word was introduced around the beginning of the 20th century, from Latin denumerō (“to count out”) + -able.

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