Incommensurable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incommensurable \In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
     commensurable: cf. F. 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; the
     side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each


     other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are
     incommensurable.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           They are quantities incommensurable.     --Burke.
     -- {In`com*men"su*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`com*men"su*ra*bly},
     adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incommensurable \In`com*men"su*ra*ble\, n.
     One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incommensurable
       adj 1: impossible to measure or compare in value or size or
              excellence
       2: not having a common factor

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "incommensurable":
     abnormal, absurd, alien, anomalous, apart, detached, disconnected,
     discrete, disjunct, disproportionate, disrelated, dissimilar,
     dissociated, exotic, extraneous, foreign, incoherent,
     incommensurate, incomparable, incompatible, incongruous,
     inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, independent, insular,
     irreconcilable, irrelative, isolated, not comparable to,
     of different orders, other, out of proportion, outlandish,
     oxymoronic, paradoxical, removed, segregate, self-contradictory,
     separate, separated, strange, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated,
     unconnected, unlike, unrelatable, unrelated