uncountable
/ʌnˈkaʊntəbəl/
noun
- 1
(grammar) An uncountable noun.
adjective
- 1
So many as to be incapable of being counted.
“The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.”
- 2
Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
“Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.”
- 3
(grammar, of a noun) That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
“Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.”
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