Definition of numerable in English:
numerable
adjective ˈnjuːm(ə)rəb(ə)lˈn(j)um(ə)rəb(ə)l
Able to be counted.
Example sentencesExamples
- I protect this small burg from the likes of them, especially around this time, as the attacks grow ever-more numerable.
- I find this penalty charge to us, and other numerable people, to be a fraud.
- There is a harsh, lonely element that runs through much of the IAS material, droning passages, a juxtaposition of numerable repetitious melodies.
- A cleverly packaged cocktail of elderly acting talent bring their numerable years of experience to the table to create a gentle, mature and engaging little story.
- His tendency is exactly that of an eighteenth-century encyclopaedist or of a Dutch painter: the world is finite, the world is full of numerable and contiguous objects.
- Thabit's concept of number follows that of Plato and he argues that numbers exist, whether someone knows them or not, and they are separate from numerable things.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin numerabilis, from numerare 'to number'.
Definition of numerable in US English:
numerable
adjectiveˈn(j)um(ə)rəb(ə)lˈn(y)o͞om(ə)rəb(ə)l
Able to be counted.
Example sentencesExamples
- I find this penalty charge to us, and other numerable people, to be a fraud.
- A cleverly packaged cocktail of elderly acting talent bring their numerable years of experience to the table to create a gentle, mature and engaging little story.
- His tendency is exactly that of an eighteenth-century encyclopaedist or of a Dutch painter: the world is finite, the world is full of numerable and contiguous objects.
- There is a harsh, lonely element that runs through much of the IAS material, droning passages, a juxtaposition of numerable repetitious melodies.
- Thabit's concept of number follows that of Plato and he argues that numbers exist, whether someone knows them or not, and they are separate from numerable things.
- I protect this small burg from the likes of them, especially around this time, as the attacks grow ever-more numerable.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin numerabilis, from numerare ‘to number’.