Word.ws English Dictionary

denumerate

denumerate verb: to assign a bijection from a denumerable set to the natural numbers.

Verb

denumerate (third-person singular simple present denumerates, present participle denumerating, simple past and past participle denumerated)

  1. To assign a bijection from a denumerable set to the natural numbers.
    • To such as know that it is impossible to denumerate 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, ...1901, Cassius Jackson Keyser, Pamphlets on Mathematics, page 209
    • 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 to denumerate.1948, American Scientist - Volumes 36-37, page 398
  2. (broadly) To list; to enumerate.
    • 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 might denumerate all his bones.1974, English Recusant Literature - Volume 205, page 279
    • These groupings enable the child to classify the reality, serially order it, denumerate it and so on.1981, Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute
  3. To determine the magnitude of; to provide an upper bound on the number or rank of.
    • 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 to denumerate it.1967, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, Progress in Weather Modification
    • When setting up a problem involving the spin of particles it is always instructive to first denumerate the complexity of the problem and count the number of independent structures of the problem.2004, David Blaschke, Mikhal A. Ivanov, Thomas Mannel, Heavy Quark Physics, page 222
  4. To indicate an unspecified number.
    • 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 that denumerate (many cars), whereas mass nouns cannot take an indefinite article (*a honey), cannot be...2007, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - Volume 61, page 23

Adjective

denumerate (not comparable)

  1. Involving the process of denumerating.
    • I have already calculated and discussed the agnates of the denumerate form of ...1878, James Joseph Sylvester, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
  2. uncountable.
    • I might go on indefinitely on denumerate benefits that arise from co-operation, but these I have already mentioned will form a good working platform for years to come.1916, California Grocers Advocate - Volume 21, Issues 1-26, page 9
    • Where the divine is not so denumerate 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.1967, Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy

Examples of denumerate in a sentence

  • For any fixed positive integer n, use Exercise 2 to denumerate the polynomials Xⁿ + rₙ₋₁Xⁿ⁻¹+. . . +r₀.1992, James D. Fix, Leopold Flatto, Advanced calculus, page 18:
  • We haven't put ourselves in a situation to denumerate or enumerate any exhaustive set of conditions which supervene or intervene or are present in relation to any piece of discourse.1982, Art-language - Volume 5, page 57:
  • This kind of minority is defined not by its numeric number but by its positioning in relation to any dominant group that can denumerate the other.2002, Hans Arthur Skott-Myhre, Youth Subculture as Performances of Postcolonial Hybridity:

Forms of denumerate

third-person singular presentdenumerates
present participledenumerating
past participledenumerated
pastdenumerated

Questions about denumerate

What does denumerate mean?
Denumerate means to assign a bijection from a denumerable set to the natural numbers.
How do you use denumerate in a sentence?
For any fixed positive integer n, use Exercise 2 to denumerate the polynomials Xⁿ + rₙ₋₁Xⁿ⁻¹+. . . +r₀.
What part of speech is denumerate?
Denumerate can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of denumerate?
The past tense of denumerate is denumerated.

Words near denumerate in the dictionary

  1. denumbers
  2. denumerability
  3. denumerable
  4. denumerably
  5. denumeral
  6. denumerate
  7. denumerated
  8. denumerates
  9. denumerating
  10. denumerization
  11. denunciability

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: denumerate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “denumerate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/denumerate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.