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incommensurability|ɪnkəˌmɛnsjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ, -ʃər-| [f. as next + -ity.] The quality or character of being incommensurable.
1570Billingsley Euclid x. xviii. 247 According to their commensurability or incommensurabilitie. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 11 Wherein also is involved the Incompossibility and Incommensurability of things. 1785Reid Intell. Powers vi. vii. (1803) II. 387 Aristotle mentions the incommensurability of the diagonal of a square to its side. 1834M. Somerville Connect. Phys. Sci. xii. (1849) 95 The incommensurability that exists between the length of the day and the revolution of the sun. 1841J. R. Young Math. Dissert. Pref. 9 The first [Dissertation] contains an attempt to prove the incommensurability of the circle. |