| 释义 |
subˈrational, a.
1. [sub- 14.] Below what is rational, less than rational.
1865Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 2/3 The readiness..of a Tory, even of the sub-rational species, to entertain the question of Reform. 1896Expositor Sept. 214 [Man is] incomparable with ‘birds and four-footed beasts’, and..with the entire subrational universe.
2. [sub- 19 b.] Math. (See quot.)
1874–5Cayley Math. Papers (1896) IX. 315 note, The expression ‘subrational’ includes irrational, but it is more extensive; if Y, X are rational functions, the same or different, of y, x respectively, and Y is determined as a function of x by an equation of the form Y = X, then y is a subrational function of x. |