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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.

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Incommensurate 84% connected

Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

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Incommensurate 84% connected

Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

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Incomparable 84% connected

Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent.

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Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent.

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Aliquant adjective · 78% connection

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 1…

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Aliquot adjective · 78% connection

An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to…

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Apotome noun · 78% connection

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between ?2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

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Bimedial adjective · 78% connection

Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

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Collation verb · 78% connection

The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; compar…

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Commensurable adjective · 78% connection

Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.

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Commensurably adverb · 78% connection

In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.

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Commensurate adjective · 78% connection

Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.

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Comparing noun · 78% connection

the act of examining resemblances; "they made a comparison of noise levels"; "the fractions selected for comparison must require pupil…

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Comparison noun · 78% connection

The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thi…

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Complement verb · 78% connection

A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.

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Coulomb noun · 78% connection

The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current prod…

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Elimination noun · 78% connection

Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing se…

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Entropy noun · 78% connection

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

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Equal adjective · 78% connection

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied…

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Equate verb · 78% connection

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison;…

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Fraction noun · 78% connection

One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude.

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Gallon noun · 78% connection

A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.

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