uncountable

Examples

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• I'm pretty sure that this is trying to refer to sets of more or less realistic objects, where the demand is to count them all despite the fact that there are uncountable sets.

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• So it's time to examine uncountable sets, and that's what we're going to do in this segment.

• This is the section on uncountable sets in the first book.

• The number line, however, is composed of an uncountable infinity of points.

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• I mean, it's, it's definitely uncountable, but it's the supremum of the olive ends.

• So you see, any two points that started infinitely close together would be an uncountable infinite distance away, even only instants later.

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• So, so naively this K formal continuum, uncountable continuum of basis of state, OK, uncountable continuum.

• It is Badiou's intuition that especially set theory provides the framework of bijectively uncountable subsets that exist beyond the counting structures of ordinals, i.e., normative rules.

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• In set theory, an uncountable set contains more elements than can be listed or counted.

• The concept of uncountable numbers is crucial in understanding different sizes of infinity.

Synonyms

U

untold

vsuncountable

52 4.8

A very large amount that cannot be counted or measured

means a formal infinite size, not just very large amounts

I

immeasurable

vsuncountable

14 5.5

So large or great you cannot say how big

contrasts finite counting with infinite set size in mathematics

I

incalculable

vsuncountable

13 8.1

Too great to measure or count

concerns exact infinite cardinality rather than informal countlessness

U

uncounted

vsuncountable

6 6.3

So many that you cannot say how many

is a precise mathematical notion of size beyond natural numbers

I

inestimable

vsuncountable

3 8.6

So great that you cannot measure its value

focuses on exact infinite cardinality rather than immeasurable value

N

numberless

vsuncountable

3 6.0

So many that you cannot count them

names the strict set size larger than all natural numbers

M

measureless

vsuncountable

• Literature

1 7.5

Very large in size or number with no clear limit

means a defined type of infinity in set theory, not vague extent

U

unnumbered

vsuncountable

1 7.5

So many that you cannot count them

denotes a mathematical cardinality larger than the naturals

I

innumerous

vsuncountable

9.6

So many that you cannot count them

refers to exact infinite cardinality, not just vague countlessness

U

unnumerable

vsuncountable

7.9

Too many to count

specifies an infinite cardinality defined within mathematics

U

unnumberable

vsuncountable

7.8

So many that you cannot count them

means an exact infinite count beyond natural number lists

I

immensurable

vsuncountable

9.9

Too great to measure

is the technical term for larger-than-natural-number cardinality

Antonyms

C

countable

1 2.9

Present as separate things you can number, like an apple or a book

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology