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In:Handbook of Terminology: Volume 1
Edited by Hendrik J. Kockaert and Frieda Steurs
[Handbook of Terminology 1] 2015
► pp. 82–100

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Enumerations count

 | Swedish Centre for Terminology (TNC)
Published online: 13 March 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hot.1.enu1
Article outline
  • 1.Enumerations
    • 1.1Enumerations in definitions
      • 1.1.1 The referential definition
    • 1.2Enumerations as definitions
      • 1.2.1The extensional definition
      • 1.2.2What is enumerated?
      • 1.2.3The partitive definition (the partition definition)
      • 1.2.4Other relation types in extensional definitions?
      • 1.2.5“Headline” definitions
      • 1.2.6The “comprehensive” definition
  • 2.How are enumerations done?
  • 3.Why are enumerations used as definitions – and should they be?
    • 3.1An example from a legal context
  • 4.Final count
    • 4.1Some final remarks
  • Notes
  • References
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