incommensurabilityn.
/ɪnkəˌmɛnsjʊərəˈbɪlᵻti//ɪnkəˌmɛnʃərəˈbɪlᵻti//ɪŋkəˌmɛnsjʊərəˈbɪlᵻti//ɪŋkəˌmɛnʃərəˈbɪlᵻti/ The quality or character of being incommensurable.
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1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. x. f. 246v According to their commensurability or incommensurabilitie.
1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 11 Wherein also is involved the Incompossibility and Incommensurability of things.
1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers 387 Aristotle mentions the incommensurability of the diagonal of a square to its side.
1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xii. 95 The incommensurability that exists between the length of the day and the revolution of the sun.
1841 J. R. Young Math Diss. Pref. 9 The first [Dissertation] contains an attempt to prove the incommensurability of the circle.
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