denumerable

English

Etymology

The word was introduced around the beginning of the 20th century, from Latin denumerō (to count out) + -able.

Adjective

denumerable (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) Capable of being assigned a bijection to the natural numbers. Applied to sets which are not finite, but have a one-to-one mapping to the natural numbers.
    Synonyms: countable, countably infinite
    The empty set is not denumerable because it is finite; the rational numbers are, surprisingly, denumerable because every possible fraction can be assigned a natural number and vice versa.

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