Word: incommensurable
Category: incommensurable
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incommensurable definition
Synonyms: incommensurable
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: incommensurable
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spanish
Translations:
inconmensurable
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french
Translations:
incommensurable
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russian
Translations:
непропорциональный, несоразмерный, несоизмеримый, диспропорциональный
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czech
Translations:
nesouměřitelný
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polish
Translations:
niewspółmierny, niewymierny
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ukrainian
Translations:
вхідний
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estonian
Translations:
ühismõõduta, võrreldamatu
The meaning and "use of": incommensurable
adjective
- not able to be judged by the same standard as something; having no common standard of measurement. - the two types of science are incommensurable
- (of numbers) in a ratio that cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers. - Book five lays out the work of Eudoxus on proportion applied to commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes.
- an incommensurable quantity. - Anaxagoras and the followers of Pythagoras, with their development of incommensurables , are also thought by some to be the targets of Zeno's arguments.
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