uncountable

(noun, adjective)

adjective

1. 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.

2. (mathematics) 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.

3. (grammar, of a noun) 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.

- Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.

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

noun

1. (linguistics) An uncountable noun.