uncountable

/ʌnˈkaʊntəbəl/

noun

  1. 1

    (grammar) An uncountable noun.

adjective

  1. 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. 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. 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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