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enumeration

[ US /ɪˌnumɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɪnjˌuːməɹˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a numbered list
  2. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
    the counting continued for several hours

How To Use enumeration In A Sentence

  • This enumeration is evidently designed to convey an impression of universality [Baumgarten]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The exact enumeration of the populations is further complicated by the possible modification of both donor and acceptor molecules.
  • Identification and enumeration of most beetles and other insects is a skilled and time-consuming process.
  • I deem it my duty further to observe that much of the imperfections in the returns of the last and perhaps of preceding enumerations proceeded from the inadequateness of the compensations allowed to the marshals and their assistants in taking them. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • For, short of a complete enumeration of them, the description may be satisfied by two or more individuals; and in that case the term denoting them, if limited by such Logic Deductive and Inductive
  • That is, the proof proves non-enumerability: it proves that for any given definite real number concept (e.g., recursive real), one cannot enumerate ˜all™ such numbers because one can always construct a diagonal number, which falls under the same concept and is not in the enumeration. Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Vaisampayana said, "That which is the twenty-fifth (in the enumeration of topics as made in the Sankhya system) viz., when it becomes able to abstain entirely from acts, succeeds in attaining to the Purushottama which is exceedingly subtile, which is invested with the attribute of The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
  • One would guess that the second enumeration is mistaken on this count. Archive 2005-07-01
  • As the novelist asked him whether he liked the horse, Jules, not to be outvied, answered with an enumeration of its qualities. Balzac
  • One can validly juxtapose here De Man's conclusion about the occurrence of the word anthropomorphism in Nietzsche's list: "The apparent enumeration is in fact a foreclosure" (241). Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes.
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