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Countable vs Maxitive - What's the difference?

countable | maxitive |

As adjectives the difference between countable and maxitive

is that countable is capable of being counted; having a quantity while maxitive is describing a certain class of nonnegative functions of countable disjoint sets.

countable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
  • (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
  • (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite or finite; having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers.
  • (grammar, of a noun) Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers, and therefore having a plural form.

    • Synonyms

    * (having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers) denumerable

    Antonyms

    * uncountable

    Hyponyms

    * (having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers) finite, countably infinite

    Hypernyms

    * (countably infinite) infinite

    Derived terms

    * countable set * countable additivity

    Related terms

    * countability

    See also

    * mass noun * plurale tantum

    maxitive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (mathematics) Describing a certain class of nonnegative functions of countable disjoint sets