incommensurable

• 形容两个事物因缺乏共同的标准或基础而无法比较或衡量。

Describes two things that cannot be compared or measured against each other because they have no common standard or basis.

1. Impossible to compareC2formal

   Unable to be measured or compared because of a fundamental difference in nature, value, or scale.

   不可通约

   • The two philosophical systems are incommensurable and cannot be reconciled.
   • The value of art and the cost of materials are often incommensurable.
   • Their experiences were so different that they were incommensurable.

   同义词disparateheterogeneousincommensurateincomparableirreconcilableuncomparable

   反义词commensurablecommensuratecomparable

2. No common factorC2formal

   In mathematics, describing two numbers that do not share a common divisor or factor.

   不可公度的

   • The numbers 2 and √2 are incommensurable.
   • Incommensurable lengths cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers.
   • The concept of incommensurable magnitudes was studied by ancient Greek mathematicians.

   反义词commensurablecommensurateproportional