uncountably
English
Etymology
uncountable + -ly or un- + countably
Adverb
uncountably (not comparable)
- Too 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.
- 1988 July 6, “Systems Easily Tripped in Error Bring Death in a Lake, Warning Us of...”, in Los Angeles Times:
- And the dimensions of death that can result from such systems tripped in error, or through misperceptions of reality, are uncountably greater than those
- 1990 September 20, “Unplugging A Diverse Bit Of Cable TV”, in New York Times:
- a host of other producers fear that a vital link to New York's uncountably diverse populations is about to be cut.
- 1997 December 29, “Vapors And Serenity”, in Newsweek:
- 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.
- 2006, Geoffrey Hawthorn, edited by David R. Olson and Michael Cole, Technology, Literacy and the Evolution of Society, Orality in Politics, page 185:
- and the sheer quantity of material is uncountably greater
- 2007 January 17, “Hippie and redneck show is equal parts insane, inane”, in Boston Globe:
- 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".
- (grammar) In an uncountable fashion.
- Some nouns can be used both countably and uncountably.
- (mathematics) In a way that is incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
- 2004, Jayant V. Deshpande, Mathematical Analysis And Applications: An Introduction, page 55:
- If a set is neither finite nor countably infinite, it is said to be uncountably infinite or simply uncountable.
Translations
too many to be counted
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in mathematics
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