incommensurable in English

adjective
1
not able to be judged by the same standard as something; having no common standard of measurement.
the two types of science are incommensurable
2
(of numbers) in a ratio that cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers.
Book five lays out the work of Eudoxus on proportion applied to commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes.
noun
1
an incommensurable quantity.
Anaxagoras and the followers of Pythagoras, with their development of incommensurables , are also thought by some to be the targets of Zeno's arguments.

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1. What does Asymmetral mean? (obsolete) Incommensurable

2. An inCommensurable root is a real root which is not Commensurable

3. InCommensurable definition, not Commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison

4. Look up commensurability, Commensurable, commensurate, incommensurability, or inCommensurable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary

5. If there is no way one can compare them to determine which is more accurate, they are inCommensurable.

6. Commensurable and InCommensurable Quantities Two like quantities—for example, lengths or areas—are said to be Commensurable if they have a common measure

7. Gringoire enjoyed seeing, feeling, fingering, so to speak an entire assembly (of knaves, it is true, but what matters that ?) stupefied, petrified, and as though Asphyxiated in the presence of the incommensurable tirades which welled up every instant from all parts of his bridal song.

8. ‘The aim of Book X is to investigate the Commensurable and the inCommensurable, the rational and irrational continuous quantities.’’ ‘In this he discussed whether the celestial motions are Commensurable or, expressed another way, is there a basic time interval so that the day, month, and year are all exact integer multiples of it.’