uncountably

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adverb

Too many to be counted (either by reason of being infinite or for practical constraints).

“Some nouns can be used both countably and uncountably.”

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Meanings

adverbuncountably (not comparable)
  1. not comparableToo many to be counted (either by reason of being infinite or for practical constraints).

    The stars in the sky are uncountably many. Even a lifetime would not suffice to number them all.

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    And the dimensions of death that can result from such systems tripped in error, or through misperceptions of reality, are uncountably greater than those

    1988 July 6, “Systems Easily Tripped in Error Bring Death in a Lake, Warning Us of...”, in Los Angeles Times

    a host of other producers fear that a vital link to New York's uncountably diverse populations is about to be cut.

    1990 September 20, “Unplugging A Diverse Bit Of Cable TV”, in New York Times

    And the memory of man runneth not to a year when there was an episode of disproportion comparable to the planet-wide vapors occasioned by one of the year's uncountably numerous automobile accidents, this one in Paris.

    1997 December 29, “Vapors And Serenity”, in Newsweek

    and the sheer quantity of material is uncountably greater

    2006, Geoffrey Hawthorn, edited by David R. Olson and Michael Cole, Technology, Literacy and the Evolution of Society, Orality in Politics, page 185

    Stories of road travel in the United States have taken uncountably many forms, from John Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley" and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" to "Little Miss Sunshine".

    2007 January 17, “Hippie and redneck show is equal parts insane, inane”, in Boston Globe
  2. not comparablegrammarIn an uncountable fashion.

    Some nouns can be used both countably and uncountably.

  3. not comparablemathematicsIn a way that is incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.

    If a set is neither finite nor countably infinite, it is said to be uncountably infinite or simply uncountable.

    2004, Jayant V. Deshpande, Mathematical Analysis And Applications: An Introduction, page 55

Origin

Translations

Czech nespočetně
  • nespočetněin mathematics
Finnish lukemattoman, numeroitumattomasti
  • lukemattomantoo many to be counted
  • numeroitumattomastiin mathematics
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Chicago

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