denumerating

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
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
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
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

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