uncountable
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uncountable
- /ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/
adjective
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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.
Similar: countless, uncounted, numberless, innumerable, uncountable, unnumberable, unnumbered, untold · Opposite: countable
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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.
Opposite: countable
- 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.
noun uncountables
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A noun that is uncountable.
But inherent uncountables such as 'stuffs' can be conceptualized in two different ways, depending on whether they are viewed in terms of quantity or in terms of quality.
Similar: mass noun, noncount noun, non-count noun, uncountable noun · Opposite: countable, count noun, countable noun
Translations
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adj too many to be counted
| Español | incontable |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 無数の musū-no, 数えきれないほどの kazoe kirenai hodo no |
| हिन्दी | अनगिनत anginat, अगणित agṇit, असंख्य asaṅkhya |
| Português | incontável |
| Français | indénombrable |
| Deutsch | unzählig, zahllos, unzählbar |
| Italiano | innumerevole, incalcolabile |
| Română | nenumărabil |
| Русский | бессчётный bessčótnyj, бесчи́сленный besčíslennyj, неисчисли́мый neisčislímyj |
adj mathematics: incapable of being enumerated by natural numbers
| Español | incontable |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 非可算 hikasan |
| हिन्दी | अगणित agṇit, अनगिनत anginat, असंख्य asaṅkhya |
| Português | incontável |
| Français | indénombrable |
| Deutsch | überabzählbar |
| Italiano | non numerabile |
| Română | nenumărabil |
adj linguistics: about a noun which cannot be counted
| Español | incontable |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 不可算 fukasan |
| 中文 | 不可數 /不可数 bùkěshǔ |
| Português | incontável |
| Français | indénombrable |
| Deutsch | unzählbar |
| Italiano | non numerabile, invariabile |
| Română | nenumărabil, inumerabil |
| Русский | неисчисля́емый neisčisljájemyj |
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