Meaning

3 senses
  1. (not comparable)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.

    unzählig, zahllos, unzählbar

    бессчётныйbessčótnyj, бесчи́сленныйbesčíslennyj, неисчисли́мыйneisčislímyj

  2. (not comparable)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.

    überabzählbar

  3. (not comparable)That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.

    Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.

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

    unzählbar

    неисчисля́емыйneisčisljájemyj

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The set of real numbers is uncountable.

    Множина дійсних чисел є незліченною.

    deDie Menge der reellen Zahlen ist nicht abzählbar.

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  2. Robert appeared with an uncountable amount of bodyguards.

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  3. 'Rice' is an uncountable noun, so you cannot say 'many' before it.

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  4. The set of real numbers is uncountable, and, therefore, it's larger than the set of rational numbers.

    Множина дійсних чисел незліченна, і, внаслідок цього, вона більша від множини раціональних чисел.

    ruМножество действительных чисел является несчётным и потому больше множества рациональных чисел.

    deDie Menge der reellen Zahlen ist überabzählbar und mithin größer als die Menge der rationalen Zahlen.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
too many to be counted:
linguistics: about a noun which cannot be counted:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
too many to be counted:
mathematics: incapable of being enumerated by natural numbers:
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