Uncountable

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uncountable

  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. (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.
    Cantor’s “diagonal proof” that the real numbers are uncountable is one of the great accomplishments of modern mathematics.
  3. (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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