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enumerated (comparative more enumerated, superlative most enumerated)

1. Specified (especially when fully specified) by an enumeration or list of steps, parts, values, amounts, etc.;
   • 1974, New Hampshire Bar Journal - Volume 16, page 291:

     Washington sided with Hamilton and the result was that an incidental or "implied" power was created that exceeded in size and scope the very enumerated power it was to implement!

   • 2015, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, Patent Reform, page 52:

     The issue I have with H.R. 9 is I just look at it and think to myself, there are a lot of attorney's fees, and crossing T's and dotting I's, and is there going to be a little side litigation about did we fill the complaint out correctly? I mean, it just seems very enumerated.

   • 2021, John Tamny, When Politicians Panicked:

     The federal government would have very narrow, very defined, very enumerated powers , while the power of states would be more expansive.

   1. (computing) Defined to consist of a specified list of possible values.
      • 2004, Steve McConnell, Code Complete, page 304:

        Enumerated types make your code easy to modify.

2. Having been included or listed in an enumeration of possibilities.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:

     Sugar was originally an enumerated commodity which could be exported only to Great Britain.

   • 1903, George Alfred Miller, An Introduction to Practice, page 116:

     It will be seen that the scope of an enumerated motion is so wide that its determination disposes of the issues; while a nonenumerated motion, under which designation fall all motions other than those included in the enumerated class, concerns merely some matter incidental to the main course of the litigation.

   • 2009, Kurt T. Lash, The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment, page 80:

     For example, during the nineteenth century, courts often considered whether a claimed right fell within an enumerated right in the federal or state constitution.

   • 2011, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, page 252:

     As such , Congress has the very enumerated constitutional authority for requiring military service that it lacks for requiring the purchase of health insurance.

   1. (computing) Having one of the possible values specified in advance for a type defined by an enumeration.
      • 2021, William McAllister, ‎S. Jane Fritz, Programming Fundamentals Using JAVA:

        Continuing the analogy, just as the numeric constant Math.PI can be assigned to a variable of its type (i.e., double), an enumerated constant can be assigned to a variable of its type (e.g. Team).

3. Having been specified by a precise numeric value.
   • 1884, The Health Exhibition Literature: Health in the dwelling, page 208:

     London, with an enumerated population of 3,814,571, showed the deaths from all causes to be 81,832, being an average of 21.5.

   • 1960, Interior Department and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1961, page 738:

     Certainly were the Congress through the Appropriations Committee to indicate to us that a certain enumerated amount of funds were to be made available, we would indicate to the committee how in our best judgment those funds should be distributed over the several management aspects of the total national forest system.

   • 2015, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, page 507:

     We said, at the time, that it was very enumerated relief . We could say very much to the dollar how much relief it would be, and that is the relief that Iran has gotten.