incommensurate
pronunciation
How to pronounce incommensurate in British English:
UK [ɪnkəˈmenʃərət]
How to pronounce incommensurate in American English:
US [ˌɪnkəˈmɛnsərɪt, -ʃə-]
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- Adjective:
- (often followed by `with') not corresponding in size or degree or extent
Word Origin
- incommensurate (adj.)
- 1640s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + commensurate.
Example
- 1. The two sides of china are incommensurate .
- 2. Your belief is incommensurate with truth .
- 3. To this , machinist job shows apparent incommensurate : the market has rate and economic effect .
- 4. The need that incommensurate already current socioeconomy admits construction of agriculture of the ningxia below new condition .
- 5. If we 're stuck with these two mentalities , we will be forever presented with proposals that are incommensurate with the problem at hand .