Usually means: Lacking common measure or comparability.
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  1. incommensurable: Merriam-Webster
  2. incommensurable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incommensurable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incommensurable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incommensurable: Vocabulary.com
  6. incommensurable: Wordnik
  7. incommensurable: Wiktionary
  8. incommensurable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. incommensurable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. incommensurable: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Incommensurable, incommensurable: Dictionary.com
  12. incommensurable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Incommensurable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. incommensurable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. incommensurable: Rhymezone
  16. Incommensurable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. incommensurable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. incommensurable: FreeDictionary.org
  19. incommensurable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. incommensurable: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. incommensurable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incommensurable: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. incommensurable: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  2. incommensurable: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incommensurable: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (incommensurable)

adjective:  (mathematics, of two real numbers) having a ratio that is not expressible as a fraction of two integers.
adjective:  (mathematics, of two integers) having no common integer divisor except 1.
adjective:  Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.
noun:  An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.

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