incommensurable
adj/ɪnkəˈmɛnʃ(ə)ɹəbəl/UK/ɪn.kəˈmɛnt͡ʃ.ɹə.bəl/US
Etymology
From Middle French incommensurable, from Medieval Latin incommensurabilis. Its full etymology is equivalent to that of in- + commensurable.
- derived from incommensurabilis
- borrowed from incommensurable
Definitions
having a ratio that is not expressible as a fraction of two integers.
- The side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.
having no common integer divisor except 1.
Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.
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An incommensurable value or quantity
An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.
- Unfortunately for Pythagoras, his theorem led at once to the discovery of incommensurables, which appeared to disprove his whole philosophy.
The neighborhood
- neighborcoprime
- neighborincommensurate
- neighborrelatively prime
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for incommensurable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA