Definition for IN-COM-MEN'SUR-A-BLE

IN-COM-MEN'SUR-A-BLE, a. [in and commensurable.]

Having no common measure. Two lines are incommensurable when, compared to each other, they have no common measure, that is, no measure that will exactly measure both. Quantities are incommensurable, when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both. Encyc.

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