Uncountable vs Immobile - What's the difference?
uncountable | immobile |
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 .
not mobile, not movable
fixed, unable to be moved
As adjectives the difference between uncountable and immobile
is that uncountable is so many as to be incapable of being counted while immobile is not mobile, not movable.As a noun uncountable
is an uncountable noun.uncountable
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.