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Incommensurable

Incommensurable Meaning & Definition
Incommensurable Definition And Meaning

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

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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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