uncountable
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4ADJ.
real
VERB + UNCOUNTABLE
appeared, spent
UNCOUNTABLE + NOUN
amount, bodyguards, dollars, grains, hours, it's, noun, upward
PREP.
since, with
Definitions
adj
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.
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.
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.
One meaning in law of the usually uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.
noun
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.
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6The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
WiktionaryMr. 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.
WiktionaryCantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
WiktionaryBut 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.
WiktionaryThe set of real numbers is uncountable.
Tatoeba · #1497795The set of real numbers is uncountable, and, therefore, it's larger than the set of rational numbers.
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