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uncountable

C2 adj

uncountable /ʌnˈkaʊntəbl̩/ nghĩa là vô số, không đếm xuể

Các nghĩa

  1. vô số, không đếm xuể

    So many as to be incapable of being counted.

    not-comparable

    The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.

  2. không đếm được (toán học)

    Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.

    not-comparable

    Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.

  3. không đếm được (ngữ pháp)

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

    not-comparable

    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.