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enumerated

[ ih-noo-muh-rey-tid, ih-nyoo- ]

adjective

  1. named or listed one by one, as if in counting:

    I couldn’t remember any of the rapidly enumerated salad dressing options, and just told the waiter to surprise me.

  2. counted systematically, as in a census, inventory, etc.:

    The enumerated population of Manitoba increased 5.2 percent over the past five years.

  3. Computers. (of a data type) allowing only values selected from a limited set of named elements:

    Assign an importance level to each record by creating an enumerated type with values such as “low,” “medium,” and “high.”

    Months of the year are an enumerated data type.

  4. Chiefly Canadian. (of a voter) entered by name in an official register of eligible voters for an election:

    In the last municipal election in Halifax, 58 percent of enumerated voters cast a ballot.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of enumerate.

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Other Words From

  • non·e·nu·mer·at·ed adjective
  • un·e·nu·mer·at·ed adjective
  • well-e·nu·mer·at·ed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of enumerated1

First recorded in 1650–60; 1970–75 enumerated fordef 3; enumerate ( def ) + -ed 2( def ) for the adjective senses; enumerate ( def ) + -ed 1( def ) for the verb sense

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Example Sentences

Because all quacks operate using the exact same methods, which are enumerated with extreme detail in NUTS!

All detailed mechanisms for “popular decision making, divided powers, and enumerated rights.”

There are also costs to such arrangements, which have been well-enumerated by the feminist movement over the years.

But as I wrote last week, you cannot use semantic games to do an end run around an enumerated constitutional right.

Except for one thing: you can't do an end-run around an enumerated right with some sort of semantic game.

Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.

The bodily positions being exhaustively enumerated need not be correlated together.

One week would have given ample time for us to include the places I have enumerated.

This table, it will be perceived, is far from settling the precise relative value of the different enumerated articles.

But the best writer of tragedy, among those enumerated in “The Pleiad,” was Dionysides.

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