uncountable

  1. Noun.  (linguistics) An uncountable noun.
  2. Adjective.  So many as to be incapable of being counted.
  3. Adjective.  (mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
  4. Adjective.  (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''.

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