| Definitions | | uncountable |
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adjective
- So many as to be incapable of being counted.
- The reasons for our failure were as as the grains of sand on a beach.
- (math) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
- Cantor"s "diagonal proof" shows that the real numbers are .
- (Linguistics) Describes a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information.
- Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from nouns.
Translations: - Dutch: ontelbaar
- German: unzí¤hlbar (:de:unzí¤hlbar, ^)
- Italian: non numerabile
(trans-mid)
- Japanese: (t, ja, sc=Jpan, ���, tr=fukasan)
Etymology: un-English, un- + countable
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