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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Impossible to compute. synonym: incalculable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not computable; incapable of being computed or reckoned.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not computable.

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  • adjective Not computable; that cannot be computed.

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  • adjective beyond calculation or measure

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Examples

  • Yet the one problem with fine-tuning arguments is that these involve incomputable and unobservable aspects of the internal states of these universes.

    If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There? | Universe Today 2009

  • Only time will tell if the generation raised on these new principles is more resistant to innumeracy–and need only worry about being incomputable.

    Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences « Books « Literacy News 2009

  • Or is it incomputable, like the halting probability which can still be computed to some degree of accuracy?

    Vacuity of Intelligent Design: Intelligent Design and Alchemy - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Not until they had laid out a seismograph array and erected a panoramic TV camera on a low, heavy tripod did van der Berg condescend to collect some of the incomputable riches lying all around them.

    2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987

  • I, the inventor of this thing, so glorious in its aspect, so incomputable in its results, -- was I to permit myself to go without reward?

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

  • For the first time in his life, he was resentful of the Duke's great elegance and average stature, his high lineage and incomputable wealth.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • For the first time in his life, he was resentful of the Duke's great elegance and average stature, his high lineage and incomputable wealth.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • It is naturally quite impossible to guess the number of successful and unsuccessful attempts at blackmail among Italians, as the amount of undiscovered crime throughout the country at large is incomputable.

    Courts and Criminals Arthur Cheney Train 1910

  • In all cases, it is an extraordinary and incomputable agent.

    XI. Essays. Character. 1844 1909

  • But when I saw the ray of sunlight fall obliquely through the staircase window, I had a feeling more poignant than ordinary sorrow; I had a feeling altogether incomprehensible and absolutely new in which there seemed infused a conception of the brevity of life's summers, their rapid flight and the incomputable ages of the sun.

    The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886

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