Uncountable nouns used countably
Sometimes uncountable nouns are used countably, to mean ‘a measure of something’ or ‘a type or example of something’: …

Examples of uncountable

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The majority recovered were fragments and many worms were knotted together in uncountable masses.
If the plural accounted for less that 3% of all occurrences of the noun, then the countability value was "uncountable".
Our aim is to study computability on uncountable structures (usually topological spaces).
The actualization of social-practice-level discourse (as an uncountable noun) in social-event-level text has three main aspects.
Also, the connecting real hypersurfaces are chosen among uncountable families of disjoint sets so that they may also be arranged to have zero measure.
Nonlinearizable holomorphic dynamics having an uncountable number of symmetries.
At this level of generality it is quite natural to allow uncountable filtered diagrams and to forgo the countable basis property.
First, it is just more subtle in approach - no crass annihilation or creation of uncountable gallons of water, for example.
We assume that for each type there is an uncountable set of names with that type.
A simple numbering is not possible for an uncountable structure.
In particular, its centralizer is either trivial or uncountable.
The cardinality of can be finite, countably infinite, or even uncountable.
In addition to traditional media such as newspapers, journals, radio and television, uncountable web pages, and bloggers offer information and opinion to the general public.
In fact, the (possibly uncountable) family of all closed sets forms a trivial co-basis.
At that point, the ancient prestige of the singular or the uncountable, which presupposes unity and inclines discussion towards that unity, is rudely challenged.
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