English Dictionary

uncountable

IPA（発音記号）

/ʌnˈkaʊntəbəl/

形容詞

比較不可 名詞語形

So many as to be incapable of being counted. / (mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.

日本語の意味

数え切れないほど多い、または計数が不可能な状態を表す。 / (数学) 自然数やその任意の部分集合と一対一の対応を取ることができない状態を示す。

An uncountable number of stars filled the night sky, making me feel both tiny and awestruck.

夜空には数え切れないほどの星が輝き、私は自分が小さく感じると同時に畏敬の念を抱きました。

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（3）

(grammar, of a noun) 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.