uncountable

English - Turkish

Definition of uncountable in English Turkish dictionary

{s} sayılamaz

Reel sayılar kümesi sayılamazdır. - The set of real numbers is uncountable.

sayılamayan

{s} hesaplanamaz

Related Terms

uncountable nouns

sayılamayan isimler

uncountable nouns

sayilamayan isimler

English - English

Definition of uncountable in English English dictionary

Describes a meaning of a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information

One meaning in law of the supposedly uncountable noun information is used in the plural and is countable.

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.

An uncountable noun

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.

{a} numberless, infinite, endless

an uncountable noun has no plural form and refers to something which cannot be counted or regarded as either singular or plural, for example 'money' or 'happiness'. In this dictionary uncountable nouns are marked countable

{s} cannot be counted, whose precise number cannot be known; large beyond measure

Describes a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information

Related Terms

uncountable noun

mass noun

uncountable nouns

plural form of uncountable noun

uncountable set

A set, containing infinite number of elements, whose elements can not be mapped one-to-one to the natural numbers. A set with a cardinality greater than that of the set of natural numbers

uncountable sets

plural form of uncountable set

uncountable noun

An uncountable noun is the same as an uncount noun

uncountable.

non-count

uncountably

Used as a general intensifier of amounts and quantities; very; much

uncountably

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

uncountably

An intensifier, a particularly great or vast number

uncountably

In a way that is incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof

Hyphenation

un·count·a·ble

Antonyms

countable

Etymology

(prefix.) un- + countable (count + -able)