English-Finnish translations for uncountable

• lukematon
  Mistäpä Matti sen lukemattomana tiesi.
  Laiska Heikki selvisi lopulta koulusta nokkeluudellaan ja lähes lukemattomana.
  Suuren tarjonnan vuoksi monet teokset jäävät lukemattomina kansalta tutustumatta.
• luvuton
• numeroitumaton
• ylinumeroituva
  Reaalilukujen joukko on ylinumeroituva, koska jokainen yritys luetella kaikki reaaliluvut jonossa r0, r1, r2,... sisältää aukkoja, joiden välissä on ääretön määrä lukuja.

Definition of uncountable

• So many as to be incapable of being counted
• Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof
• That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore :Appendix:Glossary#uncountable|usually takes no plural form. Example: ''information''
• An uncountable noun

Examples

• The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
• Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
• Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
• One meaning in law of the supposedly uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.

Related words

• uncountably
• uncountable set
• uncountable noun