denumerate (third-person singular simple presentdenumerates,present participledenumerating,simple past and past participledenumerated)
- (mathematics) Toassign abijection from adenumerable set to thenatural numbers.
1901, Cassius Jackson Keyser,Pamphlets on Mathematics, page209:To such as know that it is impossible todenumerate 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, ...
1948,American Scientist - Volumes 36-37, page398:According to this concept, a straight line, or any continuous dimension generally, contains points, such that between any two different points there exist as many points as we wish todenumerate.
1992, James D. Fix, Leopold Flatto,Advanced calculus, page18:For any fixed positive integern, use Exercise 2 todenumerate the polynomials Xn + rn-1Xn-1+. . . +r0.
- (more generally) Tolist; toenumerate.
1974,English Recusant Literature - Volume 205, page279: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 mightdenumerate all his bones.
1981,Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute:These groupings enable the child to classify the reality, serially order it,denumerate it and so on.
1982,Art-language - Volume 5, page57:We haven't put ourselves in a situation todenumerate or enumerate any exhaustive set of conditions which supervene or intervene or are present in relation to any piece of discourse.
- To determine the magnitude of; to provide an upper bound on the number or rank of.
1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources,Progress in Weather Modification: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 todenumerate it.
2004, David Blaschke, Mikhal A. Ivanov, Thomas Mannel,Heavy Quark Physics, page222:When setting up a problem involving the spin of particles it is always instructive to firstdenumerate the complexity of the problem and count the number of independent structures of the problem.
2005, J.T. Dillon,Jesus as a Teacher: A Multidisciplinary Case Study, page156:Here Marquis accurately describes the nature of learning and is one of the few writers to assess extent, todenumerate it, and in so doing to indicate its severe limitation--120 hearers made a positive decision.
2002, Hans Arthur Skott-Myhre,Youth Subculture as Performances of Postcolonial Hybridity:This kind of minority is defined not by its numeric number but by its positioning in relation to any dominant group that candenumerate the other.
- (linguistics) To indicate an unspecified number.
2007,Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - Volume 61, page23: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 thatdenumerate (many cars), whereas mass nouns cannot take an indefinite article (*a honey), cannot be pluralized (*three honey), and take only quantifiers thatdenumerate (much honey).
denumerate (notcomparable)
- Involving the process of denumerating.
1878, James Joseph Sylvester, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher,Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics:I have already calculated and discussed the agnates of thedenumerate form of ...
- uncountable.
1916,California Grocers Advocate - Volume 21, Issues 1-26, page 9:I might go on indefinitely ondenumerate benefits that arise from co-operation, but these I have already mentioned will form a good working platform for years to come.
1967,Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy:Where the divine is not sodenumerate or diaphanous and the cosmology is different, we still find the object of science, the world, dependent on a whole hierarchy of supernatural personalities, demons, saints, angels, thrones, dominations, and principalities, all these ultimately dependent on God.
