About The Word Incommensurable
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Incommensurable
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What's The Definition Of Incommensurable?
[adj] not having a common factor
[adj] impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence Synonyms | Synonyms for Incommensurable: incommensurate | incomparable | uncomparable Related Terms | Find terms related to Incommensurable: abnormal | absurd | alien | anomalous | apart | detached | disconnected | discrete | disjunct | disproportionate | disrelated | dissimilar | dissociated | exotic | extraneous | foreign | incoherent | incommensurate | incomparable | incompatible | incongruous | inconsequent | inconsistent | inconsonant | independent | insular | irreconcilable | irrelative | isolated | not comparable to | of different orders | other | out of proportion | outlandish | oxymoronic | paradoxical | removed | segregate | self-contradictory | separate | separated | strange | unaffiliated | unallied | unassociated | unconnected | unlike | unrelatable | unrelated See Also | Incommensurable In Webster's Dictionary \In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
commensurable: cf. F. incommensurable.]
Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of
comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third
quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the
side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each
other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are
incommensurable.
They are quantities incommensurable. --Burke.
-- {In`com*men"su*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`com*men"su*ra*bly},
adv.
\In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, n. One of two or more quantities which have no common measure. |
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