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Synonyms for incommensurable
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : in-kuh-men-ser-uh-buh l, -sher- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn kəˈmɛn sər ə bəl, -ʃər- |
Top 10 synonyms for incommensurable Other synonyms for the word incommensurable
- a far cry from
- altered
- antithetic
- assorted
- at odds
- at variance
- changed
- clashing
- colorful
- contradictory
- contradistinct
- contradistinctive
- contrary
- contrasted
- contrastive
- deviating
- differential
- discrepant
- discrete
- disproportionate
- dissimilar
- divers
- diversiform
- inadequate
- incommensurable
- incomparable
- inconsistent
- individual
- like night and day
- manifold
- miscellaneous
- mismatched
- mismated
- mixed bag
- multifarious
- opposed
- opposite
- other
- otherwise
- particular
- peculiar
- poles apart
- separate
- several
- single
- sundry
- unalike
- unequal
- unfair
- unlike
- unrelated
- unsimilar
- variant
- varied
- various
- varying
Définition of incommensurable
Origin :- 1550s, from Middle French incommensurable or directly from Medieval Latin incommensurabilis, from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + Late Latin commensurabilis, from Latin com- "with" + mensurabilis "measurable," from mensurare "to measure" (see measure (v.)). Related: Incommensurably.
- As in incommensurate : adj not proportional
- As in different : adj dissimilar, unlike
- As in diverse : adj different; various
- But that the Diagony is incommensurable unto the side it is the 116 p x.
- Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus
- Life introduces something indeterminate and incommensurable.
- Extract from : « Under the Maples » by John Burroughs
- Hats are, in their physical aspects, incommensurable with wheat.
- Extract from : « The Value of Money » by Benjamin M. Anderson, Jr.
- This includes the incommensurable case, but this case may be omitted.
- Extract from : « The Teaching of Geometry » by David Eugene Smith
- His ideal is the extraordinary, the gigantic, the overwhelming, the incommensurable.
- Extract from : « French Classics » by William Cleaver Wilkinson
- The incommensurable of Pythagoras and the paradoxes of Zeno present the "no thoroughfares" of ancient mathematical thought.
- Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
- It is an incommensurable number which to five decimal places is equal to 2.71828.
- Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia » by Various
- The new gods thus far were not incommensurable with the old ones.
- Extract from : « The Religion of Numa » by Jesse Benedict Carter
- The two things are not merely different, they are incommensurable.
- Extract from : « Considerations on Representative Government » by John Stuart Mill
- Lastly, the Pythagoreans discovered the existence of incommensurable lines, or of irrationals.
- Extract from : « Archimedes » by Thomas Little Heath
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