uncountable
So many as to be incapable of being counted.
Example
“The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.”
Other meanings
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.”
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.”
Related words
- uncountableness
- uncountable noun
- uncountable set
- uncountably
- uncountability
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “uncountable” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.