incommensurable

Meanings

Adjective

• Of two real numbers, such that their ratio is not a fraction of two integers.
• Of two integers, having no common integer divisor except 1.
• Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.

Noun

• An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.

Origin

• From Middle French incommensurable, from Medieval Latin incommensurabilis.