Noun: counter
| Singular | counter |
| Plural | counters |
Sample Sentences
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He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.
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The basic idea is that the researcher conducting the transect (called the counter or enumerator) walks along a set path at certain intervals (hourly, daily, monthly, etc.) and tallies all instances of whatever is being surveyed. [2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:]
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He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
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With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable. [2006, Matthew MacDonald, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional, page 49:]
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He put his money on the counter, and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
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He remaynes prisonner in the Counter in Woodstrete in the hole, by the contagiousing wherof he is lyke to perishe [1590, John Greenwood, Christopher Bowman's Petition:]
Nouns inflected like counter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English countour, from Old French conteor (French comptoir), from Medieval Latin computātōrium, from Latin computō, equivalent to count + -er. Doublet of cantore, computer, and kontor. See: Middle English Nouns '
countour', Middle English Nouns '
countour', Latin Nouns '
computō'.
Verbs referencing "counter"
Dutch Nouns
counter, German Nouns
Rechner.