enumeration:    1) the process of developing a numbered list 2) the act of counting objects, where the count is abstracted from the object in question in a generic manner that does not rely on the propertied of any specific object or group of objects 3) a use of a mechanism allowing access to the elements of a collection in an orderly manner, even when the collection itself may be unordered.

See also: enumerate

Note: enumeration allows an agent program to discover the values held in the random scheme of a hardware component, to discover these quantitative values is often called enumeration