incommensurable

Plural: incommensurables

Adjective Satellite

• impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence
• not having a common factor

Adj

• having a ratio that is not expressible as a fraction of two integers.
• having no common integer divisor except 1.
• Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.

Noun

• An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.

Examples

• The side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.

Related Words

coprime, incommensurate, relatively prime

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