incomputable
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of incomputable
First recorded in 1600–10; in- 3 + computable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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How much more truly, gloriously fantastically incomputable – 42 years and many children's books later – that calculation is today.
From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2014
They were born and they die for ends to them as incomputable as the path of a cannon-shot fired into the darkness.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
And our damage therefrom, our DAMAGE,—yes, if thou be still human and not cormorant,—perhaps it will transcend all Californias, English National Debts, and show itself incomputable in continents of Bullion!—
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01 by Carlyle, Thomas
The number of marriages built in this way, upon false foundations of hollowness and despair, is incomputable.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various
Across that Ocean, at a distance incomputable by the human intellect, is the male half of our system.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Randolph, Paschal Beverly
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