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uncountable

uncountable
Adjective

This term describes a state of vastness or indivisibility. In general usage, it evokes a sense of overwhelming quantity, often used poetically to describe the cosmos or the sands of a beach, where the act of counting becomes a futile exercise.

In technical domains, the word shifts from a description of quantity to a description of nature. In linguistics, it identifies substances or abstract concepts that lack discrete boundaries, while in set theory, it defines a specific cardinality of infinity that exceeds the countable infinity of integers.

Meanings

Adjectiveuncountable

Too many to be counted or measured.

The stars in the night sky are uncountable.

Adjectiveuncountable

In grammar, referring to a noun that cannot be counted as individual units and therefore has no plural form.

Water and air are examples of uncountable nouns.

Adjectiveuncountable

In mathematics, referring to a set that is too large to be put into a one-to-one correspondence with the set of natural numbers.

The set of real numbers is uncountable.

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