How to Use countable in a Sentence

countable

adjective
Definition of countablenext
Synonyms for countablenext
  • Again, space-time seemed to have a countable number of microstates.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The last countable components that Ms. Wexler walked me through did not quite add up to $30 billion.
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • This is because any countable—or finite—set is a null set.
    — Martin Goldstern, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Fewer is for whole, countable nouns like M&Ms on a table.
    — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Friday’s game against the Mets marked Trout’s first time playing at Citi Field for a countable ballgame.
    — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 19 May 2017
  • There must be two days off each week and a maximum of 20 hours of countable activities per week.
    — Mike Rodak | [email protected], al, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The set of natural numbers is countable, as is any group of objects that can be placed in an infinite list.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2019
  • An apeirogon is a polygon with an infinite yet countable number of sides.
    — Julie Orringer, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
  • And if the weight of the current five-game losing streak wasn’t heavy enough, now there are these rumblings that Nagy’s days as coach are numbered, perhaps even countable on one hand.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • One was Leka of Albania — a pretender to the throne, but countable nonetheless.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The Big East stipulates that teams must have at least seven scholarship players and one countable coach for games to proceed.
    — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • According to Big East policy, games will be canceled if a team cannot field at least seven players and one countable coach.
    — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The program must also limit its hours of practice and its number of countable coaches during sessions.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2020
  • According to conference guidelines, each team must have at least six scholarship players and one countable coach available for a game to be played.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Moving forward, if a team can’t field at least seven scholarship players and one countable coach, the game will be canceled and the conference will attempt to reschedule it.
    — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 23 Dec. 2021
  • In the press box, teams’ media relations staffs pass out reams of paper with every countable metric, from snap counts for players to a chronology of every play during the game.
    — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Data are just a bunch of qualitative conclusions arranged in a countable way.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Oregon is now projected to have 86 countable scholarship players, one over the limit.
    — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Friedman and Stanley then wondered: What other classes of countable objects are Borel complete?
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2021
  • For instance , any school staff member may participate in recruiting calls between a countable coach and a recruit.
    — Cecil Hurt, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2020
  • Endpoints such as hospitalization and death tend to be binary and countable.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2023
  • According to Day, the Buckeyes are now allowed up to 20 countable team activities per week, including on-field workouts.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2020
  • However, the Big East announced Thursday a game would be canceled if one school had fewer than seven scholarship players and one countable coach available.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Since either one of these is the opposite of the other, that is, to be one - to exist in a minimally countable way - is the opposite of being zero, being nothing or not existing.
    — Amir Husain, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • For example, the natural numbers (1, 2, 3, and so on) are a countable infinity.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2021
  • But right now in Massachusetts, the maximum grant for a family of three in public or subsidized housing with no countable income is only $593 a month.
    — Paul Donato, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Per Big East policy a conference game will be canceled if a team has fewer than seven scholarship players and one countable coach available.
    — courant.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The volleyball program was also hit with a Level-2 infraction for countable practice hours under former coach Kaddie Platt.
    — Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Any school staff member, for example, may participate on recruiting calls between a countable coach and a recruit.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 6 May 2020
  • There remains one countable position left on Woodson’s staff, with Yasir Rosemond one possible candidate.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Apr. 2021

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