(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.
Unmeasurable
Definition:
(a.) Immeasurable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The possibility that selective bias or unmeasured environmental differences might explain the difference in BP between the two groups is discussed.
(2) In 31 patients in whom specific IgE fell to low (less than 6% counts bound) or unmeasurable levels, immunotherapy was discontinued, and sting challenge was carried out 1 to 3 years later.
(3) The doses used did not reduce plasma angiotensin II maximally despite reduction of plasma renin activity to unmeasurable levels.
(4) To establish uniform levels of endogenous calcitriol and its precursors, all rabbits had been depleted of vitamin D. The depletion was demonstrated by their serum calcidiol and calcitriol levels declining to unmeasurable levels, following the regimen of a vitamin D-free diet.
(5) The great variability in peripheral vision changes for the groups with high life stress suggests that, for certain subjects, some unmeasured variable may be buffering the adverse impact of high life-event stress.
(6) Subsequent variance components analysis suggested that unmeasured polygenic loci and unmeasured shared environmental factors together account for at least an additional 36.7% of the variability in normalized fasting plasma glucose, with genes alone accounting for at least 27.3%.
(7) In contrast, endothelial water diffusional permeability is so high as to be unmeasurable.
(8) GSSG was present in cultured rat hepatocytes in only small amounts and becomes unmeasurable after four days of culture.
(9) In contrast, six closely related non-nitrile ligands containing identical peptide side chains but having C-terminal groups incapable of binding covalently to papain had unmeasureably high dissociation constants.
(10) The apparently significant reduction in symptoms experienced by some subjects in the absence of audiometric change suggests the operation of unmeasured factors in their response to treatment.
(11) Three patients had unmeasurable LH levels, while two had a normal number of low amplitude pulses.
(12) A small (unmeasured) drop of blood, such as is obtained from a finger puncture, is placed on disposable cover slip and inserted in the sample holder of the instrument.
(13) Because it has long been recognized that the growth of most untreated tumors is well described by Gompertzian or exponential growth curves but that the growth of treated tumors has never been well characterized mathematically, we developed and applied an equation that, while not dependent on restrictive assumptions or unmeasurable variables, was nevertheless capable of describing perturbed as well as unperturbed growth.
(14) The blood pressure was unmeasurable and the peripheral pulse could not be felt.
(15) The pool activity of G1 cells was unmeasurable but rose to maximum values at the border of the G1-S phase.
(16) Unstimulated saliva samples were collected from 20 patients; however, saliva volumes from 10 pediatric patients were inadequate to permit analysis by FPIA, and 1 other had unmeasurable concentrations by both methods.
(17) The operative blood loss during the endoscopic dissection stage was unmeasurable in four patients and amounted to 300 ml in one.
(18) Whether this might occur depends in part on the nature of the accompanying anion (if the etiology of the hypermagnesemia is an exogenous load of magnesium), as well as on the presence of concomitant changes in endogenous unmeasured anions.
(19) In separate analyses of cholesterol and betalipoprotein levels, a complete model that includes the effects of the six apo E genotypes, unmeasured polygenes, and individual specific environmental effects fits these data significantly better than a reduced model that does not include the effects of the apo E polymorphism or a reduced model that does not include the effects of polygenes.
(20) A one-step cassette contains all components necessary to run the test and includes blood filtration and automatic sample measurement, so that unmeasured finger-stick whole-blood specimens can be analyzed by the non-technically trained user.