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uncountable (not comparable )
So many as to be incapable of being counted .
Synonyms: countless numberless innumerable see also Thesaurus:innumerable Antonym: countable The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
1988 July 13, Douglas Martin, “About New York; Tasting History Through Papers That Age Well”, in The New York Times [1] Mr. Chambre has since spent uncountable hours and even more uncountable dollars buying upward of 23,000 documents, and he figures to be just hitting speed.
( mathematics ) correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
Antonym: countable Hypernym: infinite Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable .
( grammar , of a noun) indefinite article , and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information Synonyms: noncount non-count Antonym: countable Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
One meaning in law of the usually uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.
too many to be counted
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Armenian: անհաշվելի (hy) ( anhašveli )
Bulgarian: неизброим (bg) ( neizbroim )
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Dutch: ontelbaar (nl)
Estonian: loendamatu
Finnish: lukematon (fi)
French: indénombrable (fr) m or f
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Hungarian: számtalan (hu)
Italian: innumerevole (it) , incalcolabile (it)
Japanese: 無数の ( musū-no ) , 数えきれないほどの ( kazoe kirenai hodo no )
Latvian: neskaitāmi m pl neskaitāmas f pl
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Slovene: neštet
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Swedish: oräknelig (sv)
Turkish: sayılamayan (tr)
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mathematics: incapable of being enumerated by natural numbers
linguistics: about a noun which cannot be counted
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uncountable (plural uncountables
( grammar ) noun that is uncountable .
Synonyms: mass noun noncount noun non-count noun uncountable noun Antonyms: countable count noun countable noun 1988 The Semantics of Grammar , page 440 :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.
