1) Incommensurate 2) Incomparable 3) Uncomparable
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• (a.) 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. • (n.) One of two or mo...
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(from the article `Incommensurables`) The geometers immediately following Pythagoras (c. 580–c. 500 ) shared the unsound intuition that any two lengths are `commensurable` (that is, ... ...of both the side and diagonal; that is, the side and diagonal cannot each equal the same length multiplied by (different) whole number...
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In`com·men'su·ra·ble adjective [ Prefix
in- not +
commensurable : confer French
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;...
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In mathematics, incommensurable is a term applied to two magnitudes when they cannot both be measured by the same quantity, that is, when they do not contain it one or more times exactly. The diagonal and side of a square are an example.
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[
adj] - impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence 2. [adj] - not having a common factor
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adjective not having a common factor
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not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison. · utterly disproportionate. · (of two or more quantities) having no common measure.
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