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Another word for irrationality

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Noun

  1. The absence of reason

    See also:

    reason

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Another word for irrationality

Noun

  1. Irrationality

    See also:

    inconsistency

  2. Senselessness

    See also:

    stupidity

    nonsense

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Sentence Examples

  • This property is referred to as the "irrationality of dispersion."

  • Moreover the greater depths of the curves (or "curvature powers") in itself neutralize more or less the advantages obtained from the reduced irrationality of dispersion.

  • The general test of irrationality which he established is that, if a l a, a, be an interminate continued fraction, a l, a2,

  • The great abstract ideas (considered directly and not merely in tacit use) which have dominated the science were due to them - namely, ratio, irrationality, continuity, the point, the straight line, the plane.

  • In 1761 he proved the irrationality of 7r; a simpler proof was given somewhat later by Legendre.

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