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surd

/surd/US // sɜrd //UK // (sɜːd) //

糜烂,糜烂的,糜费,糜子

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Phonetics. voiceless.
    • : Mathematics. not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; irrational.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Phonetics. a voiceless consonant.
    • : Mathematics. a surd quantity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Absurd, ab-surd′, adj. obviously unreasonable or false: ridiculous.

  • Again, he points out that the surd aspirate h is heard in some languages, but is hardly audible in others.

  • Surdimū′tism, the condition of being deaf and dumb; Surd′ity, want of sonant quality.

  • The terms sonant and surd are, in a scientific point of view, the least exceptionable.

  • The problems have a surd or irrational element in them; and to solve them would be to bring reason into collision with itself.