incommensurable

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1. incommensurable - Noun

2. incommensurable - Adjective

3. incommensurable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.

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A sentence always means more. Even a single word, within the weave of incommensurable connotation, can, and usually does. George Steiner

Profound and incommensurable is the worth of this flowing world: God clings to it and ascends, God feeds upon it and increases. Nikos Kazantzakis

Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable. China Miéville

They based their extrapolations on numbers. That worked as long as money, which is easily measured numerically, was the principle motivating force in human affairs. But as time progressed, human actions became responsive instead to a multitude of incommensurable vectors. Gene Wolfe

The Pythagoreans discovered the existence of incommensurable lines, or of irrationals. Thomas Little Heath

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. Plato

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