Coercion vs Uncountable - What's the difference?
coercion | uncountable |
(not countable) Actual]] or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of [[coerce, coercing.
(legal, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
(countable) A specific instance of coercing.
(computing, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
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.
(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 .
As nouns the difference between coercion and uncountable
is that coercion is actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing while uncountable is an uncountable noun.As an adjective uncountable is
so many as to be incapable of being counted.coercion
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* * *uncountable
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(-)- 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.