Discriminatory vs Incommensurable - What's the difference?
discriminatory | incommensurable |
Of or pertaining to discrimination (in all senses).
Showing prejudice or bias.
(mathematics) Of two real numbers, such that their ratio is not a fraction of two integers.
(arithmetic) 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; see measurement; contrast with unmeasurable or immeasurable, each of which means not able to be measured at all, the former more generally, the latter generally due to some infinite quality of the thing being described
An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , ch. 3:
As adjectives the difference between discriminatory and incommensurable
is that discriminatory is of or pertaining to discrimination (in all senses) while incommensurable is (mathematics) of two real numbers, such that their ratio is not a fraction of two integers.As a noun incommensurable is
an incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.discriminatory
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Adjective
(en adjective)incommensurable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable''' with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are '''incommensurable .
Noun
(en noun)- Unfortunately for Pythagoras, his theorem led at once to the discovery of incommensurables , which appeared to disprove his whole philosophy.