Incommensurable vs Incomparable - What's the difference?
incommensurable | incomparable |
(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:
So much better than another as to be beyond comparison; matchless or unsurpassed.
* , De Profundis , (1909), Robert Baldwin Ross, ed., page 112:
(rare) Not able to be compared.
As adjectives the difference between incommensurable and incomparable
is that incommensurable is (mathematics) of two real numbers, such that their ratio is not a fraction of two integers while incomparable is so much better than another as to be beyond comparison; matchless or unsurpassed.As a noun incommensurable
is an incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.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.
External links
* * * ----incomparable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.