Incommensurable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Impossible to measure or compare.
  • adj. Lacking a common quality on which to make a comparison.
  • adj. Mathematics Having no common measure or number of which all the given lengths or measures are integral multiples.
  • adj. Mathematics Having an irrational ratio.
  • n. One that is incommensurable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. That cannot be measured as an integer or fraction; irrational.
  • adj. 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
  • n. An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison
  • n. One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not commensurable; having no common measure: thus, two quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; in arithmetic, having no common divisor except unity. See commensurable.
  • n. One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence
  • adj. not having a common factor
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