count meaning

• Verb: count  kawnt
  1. Determine the number or amount of
     "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change"
     - number, enumerate, numerate 
  2. Have weight; have import, carry weight
     - matter, weigh 
  3. Show consideration for; take into account
     - consider, weigh 
  4. Name or recite the numbers in ascending order
     "The toddler could count to 100" 
  5. Put into a group
     "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members"
     - number 
  6. Include as if by counting
     "I can count my colleagues in the opposition" 
  7. Have a certain value or carry a certain weight
     "each answer counts as three points" 
  8. Have faith or confidence in
     "you can count on me to help you any time"
     - bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon 
  9. Take account of
     "Count on the monsoon"
     - reckon
  Noun: count  kawnt
  1. The total number counted
     "a blood count" 
  2. The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
     - counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally 
  3. A nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl

  Derived forms: counts, counted, counting

  See also: count down, count out, countable, counter

  Type of: approximate, ascertain, assort, bank, be, class, classify, determine, estimate, find, find out, gauge, guess, include, investigating, investigation, judge, Lord, noble, nobleman, number, recite, rely, separate, sort, sort out, swear, trust

  Encyclopedia: Count

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  [Architecture]
  

  In wire cloth, the number of openings per linear inch.

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  [Design engineering]
  The number of openings per linear inch in a wire cloth.
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  [Electronics]
  1. The number of pulses tallied by a counting system in a given period of time.
  2. A single response by a radioactivity counter.
  3. A record of the number of times an instruction or subroutine in a computer program is executed (by increasing the value of a variable by one, as stated in a FOR-NEXT loop, for example).
  

[Finance]
A trend analysis using point and figure charts to estimate the vertical movement of prices.
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  [Law]
  n. See INDICTMENT.
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  [Medicine]
  vt : to indicate or name by units or groups so as to find the total number of units involved
  n
  1
  a : the action or process of counting
  b : a total obtained by counting
  2 : the total number of individual things in a given unit or sample (as of blood) obtained by counting all or a subsample of them —see ADDIS COUNT, BLOOD COUNT, CELL COUNT, RED BLOOD COUNT, WHITE COUNT
  
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  [Sports]
  Baseball
  The number of called balls and strikes on a hitter.

• count for:    count for somethin ...
• count in:    count me in! spoke ...
• count on:    Verb: count onJudg ...

Examples

1. the development of the thighs counts heavily.
2. we are glad to count you as a friend.
3. mind, i count on your keeping the promise.
4. it makes no difference to the count rate.
5. there are so many mistakes that i cannot count them.