present participle of count

a count / the act by which something is counted.

(colloquial, rhetorical question, sarcastic, humorous) Used as a retort or comeback, often to deprecate oneself or another for excessive concern or attention to detail.

(idiomatic) used to show that the number previously mentioned is continuously changing, i.e. increasing or decreasing

(mathematics) a positive integer

(dated) An office used by a business to house its accounts department.

(games) A simple children's game using a rhyme (the counting rhyme) to select a person from a group, more or less at random. The selected person then takes a particular role in another game that follows.

A strategy, in pontoon or blackjack, in which a player keeps a mental tally of the cards played in order to calculate the probability of certain cards being dealt and therefore obtain an advantage.

plural of counting cell hemocytometer

(medicine) A device used for counting blood cells.