uncountable
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ʌnˈkaʊntəbəl/
uncountable (not comparable)
- 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) 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.
- (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.
- One meaning in law of the supposedly uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.
- (too many to be counted) countless; see also Thesaurus:innumerable
- (grammar) non-count
- French: indénombrable
- German: unzählig, zahllos, unzählbar
- Italian: innumerevole, incalcolabile
- Portuguese: incontável
- Russian: бессчётный
- Spanish: incontable
- French: indénombrable
- German: überabzählbar
- Italian: non numerabile
- Portuguese: incontável
- Spanish: incontable
- French: indénombrable
- German: unzählbar
- Italian: non numerabile, invariabile
- Portuguese: incontável
- Russian: неисчисля́емый
- Spanish: incontable
uncountable (plural uncountables)
- (linguistics) An uncountable noun.
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