uncountable
Pronunciation:
/ʌnˈkaʊntəbəl/noun
Definitions
(grammar) An uncountable noun.
adjective
Definitions
So many as to be incapable of being counted.
Example: The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
Example: Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
(grammar, of a noun) That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
Example: Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.