subitization
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subitization (uncountable)
- (psychology) The process of, or act of, glancing at a group of a few objects and knowing how many there are without actually counting.
- 2008 April 22, Christine Kenneally, “When Language Can Hold the Answer”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Monkeys and other animals can compute the exact number of a small set of objects at a glance without explicitly counting. The ability is called subitization.