Incommensurable

Definitions: Incommensurable

Incommensurable

Adjective

1. Impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence.

2. Not having a common factor.

Date "incommensurable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Difference	Incommensurable, incommensurate.
Disagreement	Inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite; (irrelevant). uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable; unsympathetic.
Incomparability	Adjective: incommensurable, incommensurate; incomparable; different;
Irrelation	Not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable. irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes; aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point; misplaced; (intrusive); traveling out of the record.
Number	Adjective: numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable.
Numeration	Adjective: numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable, commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incommensurable

English words defined with "incommensurable": Asymmetral ♦ Incommensurability. (references)

Etymologies containing "incommensurable": Asymmetral. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Incommensurable" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (immeasurable, incommensurable).

Domain	Title
Books	The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements: A Study of the Theory of Incommensurable Magnitudes and Its Significance for Early Greek Geometry (reference) Visionary Physics and Other Essays: Blake, Newton, and Incommensurable Textuality (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Incommensurable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incommensurable" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	23	72,767

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "incommensurable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pabashkëmatshëm, pa plotpjesëtues të përbashkët. (various references)

Arabic		‏غير متناسب (they do not belong together), ‏غير قابل للقياس. (various references)

Bulgarian		несъразмерен (disproportionate, unshapely, unsized), несъезмерим (incommensurate). (various references)

Czech		nesoumìřitelný. (various references)

Farsi		متناقض (Anomalous, Incoherent, Inconsistent, Repugnant), گنگ (Mute, Unvocal, Whist), سنجش ناپذیر. (various references)

French		incommensurable. (various references)

German		nicht vergleichbar. (various references)

Greek		μη δυνάμενοσ να μετρηθή. (various references)

Hungarian		megmérhetetlen (bottomless). (various references)

Italian		incommensurabile (fathomless, immeasurable, incalculable). (various references)

Manx		do-chohowshanagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		incommensurableay

Portuguese		correspondência recebida. (various references)

Romanian		incomensurabil (huge, immensurable, incalculable, incommensurate). (various references)

Russian		несоизмеримый (incommensurate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesamerljiv. (various references)

Spanish		inconmensurable (immeasurable, incommensurate). (various references)

Swedish		inkommensurabel (incommensurate), ojämförbar (incommensurate, unequaled). (various references)

Turkish		oransız (asymmetrical, disproportionate, incommensurate, inordinate, irrational, lop-sided, unequal, unproportional), kıyaslanamaz (beyond compare, incommensurate, incomparable), bağdaşmayan (incompatible), ölçüsüz (beyond measure, exceeding, excessive, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, inordinate, intemperate, measureless, out of all measure, unbounded, unconscionable, unmeasured), ölçülemez (imponderable, incommensurate, unmeasurable). (various references)

Ukranian		ірраціональний (surd), несумірний. (various references)

Welsh		anghyfesur. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incommensurable": incommensurables. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incommensurable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incomensurable, incomensurables. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-l-m-m-n-n-o-r-s-u"
	-2 letters: commensurable.
	-3 letters: immensurable, inconsumable, ribonuclease.
	-4 letters: ceremonials, innumerable, neurilemmas, nonreusable, unmemorable.
	-5 letters: arecolines, binoculars, bromelains, censurable, ceremonial, columbines, consumable, cornelians, cumbersome, enunciable, immanences, incunables, incurables, lambencies, lebensraum, luminances, membranous, mensurable, microbeams, neorealism, neurilemma, nonmembers, nonmusical, normalcies, numeracies, recombines, summonable, unscramble, unsociable.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-l-m-m-n-n-o-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: incommensurables.
	+5 letters: incommensurabilities.
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