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31 words match “NUMERABLE”

NUMERABLE a.
Capable of being numbered or counted.
INNUMERABLE a.
tude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number. Innumerable as the stars of night. Milton. -- In*nu"mer*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*nu"mer*a*bly, adv.
UNNUMERABLE a.
Innumerable. [Obs.] "An unnumerable multitude." Udall.
ADDUCIBLE a.
Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.
BROIL n.
that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Burke.
CLARITY n.
Clearness; brightness; splendor. Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity, Innumerable virgin graces row. Beaumont.
COUNTER a.
unter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue. "Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle." I. Taylor. Counter approach (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice…
COUNTLESS a.
Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.
DEFLAGRATION n.
A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.
EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY n.
uid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
GALAXY n.
or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. Nichol.
HOAR n.
Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke.
INFUSION n.
good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms. Addison.
INNUMERABILITY n.
State of being innumerable. Fotherby.
INNUMEROUS a.
Innumerable. [Archaic] Milton.
MILLIONED a.
Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.] Shak.
NUMBER n. 2 definitions
That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
NUMBERLESS a.
Innumerable; countless.
PORISM n.
uch conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair.
PUS n.
owish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.
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