COUNTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does counting mean? 

• COUNTING (noun)
  The noun COUNTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

  Familiarity information: COUNTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

count; counting; enumeration; numeration; reckoning; tally

Context example:

the counting continued for several hours

Hypernyms ("counting" is a kind of...):

investigating; investigation (the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "counting"):

blood count (the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample)

census; nose count; nosecount (a periodic count of the population)

countdown (counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle))

miscount (an inaccurate count)

poll (the counting of votes (as in an election))

recount (an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election)

sperm count (the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate)

Derivation:

count (name or recite the numbers in ascending order)

count (determine the number or amount of)

 Context examples 

A technique for counting, examining or sorting microscopic particles suspended in a stream of fluid based on tagging the population of interest with antibody-based reagents.

(Immunological Flow Cytometry, NCI Thesaurus)

The first lumbar vertebra counting from the top down.

(L1 Vertebra, NCI Thesaurus)

The second lumbar vertebra counting from the top down.

(L2 Vertebra, NCI Thesaurus)

The third lumbar vertebra counting from the top down.

(L3 Vertebra, NCI Thesaurus)

A technique for counting, examining and sorting microscopic particles suspended in a stream of fluid.

(Flow cytometry, NCI Thesaurus)

A positive integer (sometimes called the radix or scale) that establishes the counting numbers and place values in a number system.

(Base Number, NCI Thesaurus)

Jane had sent Caroline an early answer to her letter, and was counting the days till she might reasonably hope to hear again.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Simply counting the number of stars in any galaxy, and adding their individual masses, won’t give you its total mass.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers also performed a technique called crater counting — tallying up the number of craters at least 330 feet (100 meters) in diameter — to estimate the ages of the flows.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

The fourth lumbar vertebra counting from the top down.

(L4 Vertebra, NCI Thesaurus)