English-French translations for incommensurable

• incommensurable
  Il y a, bien sûr, le goût de l'argent, Alain l'a souligné, les richesses souvent incommensurables de ce coin. Of course, there is the taste for money, Alain pointed this out, the often incommensurable wealth of this area.
• sans commune mesure

Definition of incommensurable

• Of two real numbers, such that their ratio is not a fraction of two integers
• Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context
• An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number

Examples

• The side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.

Related words

• incommensurately
• incommensurate
• incommensurability