incomputable

[in-kuhm-pyoo-tuh-buhl]

adjective

1. incapable of being computed; incalculable.

incomputable

/ ˌɪnkəmˈpjuːtəbəl /

adjective

1. incapable of being computed; incalculable

Other Word Forms

• incomputably adverb
• incomputability noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of incomputable¹

First recorded in 1600–10; in- ³ + computable ( def. )

Example Sentences

But experts say Go presents an entirely different challenge because of the game's incomputable number of move options which means that the computer must be capable of human-like "intuition" to prevail.

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How much more truly, gloriously fantastically incomputable – 42 years and many children's books later – that calculation is today.

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Even when Turing was kept busy by wartime code-breaking and the practical implementation of his universal computer, he never forgot that he had, in 1936, discovered something even bigger: the 'incomputable' world.

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We have endeavored to explain why our weather is so uncertain and incomputable.

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Across that Ocean, at a distance incomputable by the human intellect, is the male half of our system.

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