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noun

counting

KOWN-tihng
noun
1
The act of determining the number of something by counting.
"The counting of ballots took most of the night."

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In plain EnglishThe process of adding up or tallying items one by one.

Common pairings
vote counting counting sheep

Word Forms

countings plural

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