irrational

adj
/ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/

Etymology

From Latin irratiōnālis, from ir- + ratiōnālis.

  1. derived from irratiōnālis

Definitions

  1. Not rational

    Not rational; unfounded, nonsensical or wrong-headed.

    • an irrational decision
  2. Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.

    • The number π is irrational.
  3. A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational…

    A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.

    • The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at irrational. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01irrational02quotient03quotum04fraction05diagonal06slanted07biased08prejudiced09prejudices10prejudice

A definitional loop anchored at irrational. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at irrational

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA