Incommensurable Definition

ĭnkə-mĕnsər-ə-bəl, -shər-
adjective
Impossible to measure or compare.
American Heritage
That cannot be measured or compared by the same standard or measure; without a common standard of comparison.
Webster's New World
Not worthy of comparison.
A statement incommensurable with truth.
Webster's New World
Not being integral multiples of the same number or quantity: said of two or more numbers or quantities, as 2 and 3
Webster's New World
Having an irrational ratio.
American Heritage
noun
An incommensurable thing, quantity, etc.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Incommensurable

Noun

Singular:
incommensurable
Plural:
incommensurables

Origin of Incommensurable

  • From Middle French incommensurable, from Medieval Latin incommensurabilis.

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Incommensurable Sentence Examples

  • A non-terminating simple continued fraction must be incommensurable.

  • For us with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable.

  • Decimal or Briggian Antilogarithms. - In the ordinary tables of logarithms the natural numbers are all integers, while the logarithms tabulated are incommensurable.

  • But for the literary life of both poets the gain was incommensurable.

  • Arithmetic, algebra, and the infinitesimal calculus, are sciences directly concerned with integral numbers, rational (or fractional) numbers, and real numbers generally, which include incommensurable numbers.

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