Sekirov Dictionary

irrational

/ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

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Not rational; unfounded, nonsensical or wrong-headed.
- July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
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Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
- The number π is irrational.

noun1

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A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
- The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered. — 1946

forms

irrationals · more irrational · most irrational

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