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Surd vs Sura - What's the difference?

surd | sura |

As nouns the difference between surd and sura

is that surd is cheerfulness, alacrity, eagerness while sura is brother-in-law (brother of one's wife ).

surd

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (arithmetic) An irrational number, especially one expressed using the ? symbol.
  • (linguistics) A voiceless consonant.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Lacking the sense of hearing; deaf.
  • * Sir Thomas Brown
    • a surd generation
  • (obsolete) unheard
    • (Kenrick)
  • (math) Involving surds, or irrational numbers; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers.
    • a surd''' expression or quantity; a '''surd number
  • (phonetics) unvoiced; voiceless

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    sura

    English

    (wikipedia sura)

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of the 114 chapters of the Qur'an.
  • * 1985 , Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qur?an'', (Cairo), (Egypt): (American University in Cairo Press) (2001), ISBN 9774245946, chapter 2: “”, page 25:
    • Most of these essentially uninflected syllables (CV?C) are names of the letters of the alphabet and introduce some of the suwar of the Qur?anic text.

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