Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Incommensurable

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Incommensurable


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(1):

(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.

(2):

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