1. relating to or involving the process of counting, listing, or naming items one by one
Usage: formal; often used in academic or technical contexts
2. of or relating to a method or approach that proceeds by listing or naming individual cases or examples
Usage: technical; used in logic, mathematics, and computer science

Examples

• The enumerative approach to the problem required listing all possible solutions.
• An enumerative method in programming involves iterating through each element in a collection.
• The researcher used an enumerative technique to catalog every species in the forest.
• Enumerative combinatorics is a branch of mathematics concerned with counting structures.
• The enumerative process helped organize the data into manageable categories.