(a.) Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.
(n.) One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aristotle's theory of vision has been characterized as naive, incommensurate with his theory of audition, and of historical interest only.
(2) In the first half of 2011, humanitarian aid to Somalia was incommensurate with the country's needs.
(3) By offering market competition to achieve allocational efficiency and vouchers and tax credits to achieve distributional equity, pro-competition reforms appear to satisfy what many believed were incommensurable goals.
(4) By the time I was at university and studying politics myself, I certainly understood there was a major problem with being a socialist: namely, the incommensurability of the means available and the ends desired.
(5) We will try to illustrate here that, simply from the geometry of the electron diffraction pattern of an incommensurably modulated structure, conclusive information can be obtained on the real space shape of this modulation.
(6) Therefore, one DPPA headgroup interacts with more than one lysine residue electrostatically, i.e., the electric charge distributions in both the surface of a DPPA bilayer and the poly(L-lysine) beta-sheet are incommensurate.
(7) However, we can find in Alcmaion and the hippocratic writings de vetere medicina, de natura hominis and de victu the differentiation between an arithmetical determinable measure and a qualitative determinable measure which is defined by a common lógos for incommensurable sizes.
(8) In an interview late in life, Aldous Huxley remarked: "We are multiple amphibians living in many different – even in some senses incommensurable – universes at the same time, and ... our business in life is somehow to make the best of all the worlds we live in."
(9) Yet it’s unclear to me – as I imagine it may be to you – how these qualities can be said to inhere in any given individual solely by an accident of birth; “Britishness” and “patriotism” are incommensurable without a peculiar sort of sleight of mind, one practised by all dominant societies − or at least those who aspire to punch above their weight on the international stage.
(10) Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse reject my claim that because their views on the mortality of infanticide are metaphysically incommensurate with those of Paul Ramsey they cannot refute his position.
(11) The L beta to L alpha phase transition was shown to proceed via a second-order thermodynamic process involving incommensurate mesophase bilayer repeat structures and the formation of an intermediate rectangular acyl chain packing subcell.
(12) That is, they are incommensurate with one aspect or another of the pooled findings in the meta-analysis.
(13) Playground risks are comparatively low; accident causes are diverse and most involve long bone injuries and not head injuries as has been widely reported; and the cost of some popular risk reduction measures would seem to be incommensurate with the reasonably-anticipated risk reduction which they might afford.
(14) Ramsey and we, he holds, start from incommensurable metaphysical views: for Ramsey, the dying process has religious significance--God is calling his servant home.
(15) I argue that there is no contradiction and offer further thoughts on the metaphysically incommensurate.
(16) Each of the authors bases their interpretation on different aspects of the material, which leads to the epistemological problem named 'empirical incommensurability' by Stegmüller.
(17) In its conceptional framework this spectrum is placed on two different levels which are incommensurable to each other.
(18) The X-ray diffraction pattern recorded during contraction shows that the force generation of a muscle proceeds upon interaction of the actin and myosin heads in the incommensurate structural framework of the thin and thick filaments.
(19) The importance of incommensurately related frequency components is emphasized by proofs which do not depend on harmonic relationships.
(20) No such criterion for comparing incommensurable kinds of harm can be scientifically defined, but one is essential if occupational exposure standards are to be put into perspective.
Numeric
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Numerical
(n.) Any number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio. The term also includes any imaginary expression like m + nÃ-1, where m and n are real numerics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(2) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(3) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(4) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(5) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(6) Numerical results for the population of England and Wales are shown.
(7) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(8) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(9) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
(10) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
(11) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(12) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(13) The numerical chromosome values in 53 human tumors were determined and compared with the modal DNA values as measured by flow cytometry.
(14) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(15) There are numerous other male protagonists out there in desperate need of a sex change.
(16) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(17) However, when beta-xyloside-treated cultures were supplied with exogenous basement membrane, Schwann cells produced numerous myelin segments.
(18) Though the problems associated with Robin sequence may be numerous, especially if the primary cause of the sequence is a multiple anomaly syndrome, the most acute problems in affected newborns is upper airway obstruction.
(19) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
(20) However, almost all of the numerous compounds found to inhibit ammonia oxidizers also inhibit methanotrophs, and most of the inhibitors act upon the monooxygenases.