INCOMMENSURABLE


Meaning of INCOMMENSURABLE in English

— incommensurability, incommensurableness , n. — incommensurably , adv.

/in'keuh men"seuhr euh beuhl, -sheuhr-/ , adj.

1. not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.

2. utterly disproportionate.

3. Math. (of two or more quantities) having no common measure.

n.

4. something that is incommensurable.

5. Math. one of two or more incommensurable quantities.

[ 1550-60; incommensurabilis. See IN- 3 , COMMENSURABLE ]

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