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Count vs Undercount - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between count and undercount

is that count is to recite numbers in sequence while undercount is to count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another.

As a noun count

is the act of or tallying a quantity or count can be the male ruler of a county.

count

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) counten, from (etyl) conter, from (etyl) ).

Verb

(en verb)
  • To recite numbers in sequence.
  • To determine the number (of objects in a group).
  • To be of significance; to matter.
  • To be an example of something.
  • * J. A. Symonds
    • This excellent man counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
  • To consider something an example of something.
  • (obsolete) To take account or note (of).
  • * Shakespeare
    • No man counts of her beauty.
  • (UK, legal) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
    • (Burrill)
    Derived terms
    * count one's blessings * count out
    Related terms
    * compute

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of or tallying a quantity.
    • Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
  • The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
  • A countdown.
  • (legal) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
  • (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
    • He has a 3-2 count with the bases loaded.
  • (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
  • * Spenser
    • all his care and count
    Derived terms
    * countless * down for the count * sperm count

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia count) From (etyl) comte and in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The male ruler of a county.
  • A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
    • Synonyms
    * (English counts) earl * (French counts) comte * (Italian counts) conte * (German counts) graf
    Derived terms
    * viscount * count palatine, count palatinate
    Related terms
    * (female form or wife) countess, contessa * (adjectival form) comital * (related titles) baron, don, duke, earl, lord, prince

    undercount

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 8, Brian Stelter, Arbitron Settles Lawsuit Alleging Bias in Radio Ratings System, New York Times citation
    • , passage=But minority stations have claimed that they are undercounted in the new system, in part because Arbitron has struggled to include representative numbers of young and minority listeners in its sample. }}

    Related terms

    *overcount