INCOMMENSURABLE

incommensurable

Noun

  1. An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.

Adjective

  1. Of two real numbers, such that their ratio is not a fraction of two integers.
  2. Of two integers, having no common integer divisor except 1.
  3. Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context; see measurement; contrast with unmeasurable or immeasurable, each of which means not able to be measured at all, the former more generally, the latter generally due to some infinite quality of the thing being described
    The side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.


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