SURD
\sˈɜːd], \sˈɜːd], \s_ˈɜː_d]\
Definitions of SURD
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Net having the sense of hearing; deaf.
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Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.
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Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.
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A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, Ã2 is a surd.
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A surd element of speech. See Surd, a., 4.
By Oddity Software
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A consonant sound made without voice or tone, as f, p, s.
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Uttered, as certain consonants, without voice or tone.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(alg.) Involving surds. produced by the action of the speech organs on the breath (not the voice) , as the "hard" sounds k, t, p, f, etc.
By Daniel Lyons
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A quantity inexpressible by rational numbers, or the root of which can not be exactly expressed in numbers.
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Denoting a surd; whispered, as a sound.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Not expressible in rational numbers.
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An irrational quantity, that is, a quantity or a number whose root cannot be exactly obtained, or cannot be expressed in rational numbers, such as 2, because there is no number which multiplied into itself will exactly produce it.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
