Uncountable
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Adjective
uncountable
- 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.
- (mathematics{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}) incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
- Cantorâs âdiagonal proofâ that the real numbers are uncountable is one of the great accomplishments of modern mathematics.
- (linguistics) Describes a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, for example wine, water or sand.
- Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
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