countable

[ koun-tuh-buh l ]

/ ˈkaʊn tə bəl /

able to be counted.

Mathematics.

(of a set) having a finite number of elements.
(of a set) having elements that form a one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers; denumerable; enumerable.

Origin of countable

1400–50; late Middle English. See count¹, -able

count·a·bil·i·ty, count·a·ble·ness, noun count·a·bly, adverb

This was not sufficient, because though visible not sufficiently tangible, countable, and tariffable.

A Decade of Italian Women, vol. I (of 2) |T. Adolphus Trollope
But these were a minority always, generally a very small one, often so small a one as to be countable on the fingers of your hand.

Tom Brown's School Days |Thomas Hughes
While this poor Friedrich-Wilhelm sphere is perhaps still a countable quantity.

History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.) |Thomas Carlyle
Bemebibi, chief of the Lesser Isisi, was too fat a man for a dreamer, for visions run with countable ribs and a cough.

Bones |Edgar Wallace

The lightning came, in one of those broad, sheetlike flickers that seem to irradiate the world for countable seconds.

The Flying Death |Samuel Hopkins Adams

countable

/ (ˈkaʊntəbəl) /

capable of being counted

maths logic able to be counted using the natural numbers; finite or denumerable

linguistics denoting a count noun