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Meaning of denumerate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To assign a bijection from a denumerable set to the natural numbers.
  2. To list; to enumerate.
    broadly
  3. To determine the magnitude of; to provide an upper bound on the number or rank of.
  4. To indicate an unspecified number.

Examples

“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, ...”
“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.”
“For any fixed positive integer n, use Exercise 2 to denumerate the polynomials Xⁿ + rₙ₋₁Xⁿ⁻¹+. . . +r₀.”
“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.”
“These groupings enable the child to classify the reality, serially order it, denumerate it and so on.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Here Marquis accurately describes the nature of learning and is one of the few writers to assess extent, to denumerate it, and in so doing to indicate its severe limitation--120 hearers made a positive decision.”
“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.”
“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 pluralized (*three honey), and take only quantifiers that denumerate (much honey).”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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