incommensurable
Meanings
Plural: incommensurables
Adjective Satellite
- impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence
- not having a common factor
Adj
- having a ratio that is not expressible as a fraction of two integers.
- having no common integer divisor except 1.
- Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.
Noun
- An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French incommensurable, from Medieval Latin incommensurabilis.
Its full etymology is equivalent to that of in- + commensurable.
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