irrational
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
irrational
- Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
- an irrational decision
- July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[http://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.
- (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
- The number π is irrational.
- Antonyms: rational
- hypo en
- French: irrationnel
- German: irrational, irrationell, unvernünftig
- Italian: irrazionale
- Portuguese: irracional
- Russian: нерациона́льный
- Spanish: irracional
- French: irrationnel
- German: irrational
- Portuguese: irracional
- Russian: иррациона́льный
irrational (plural irrationals)
- A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24:
- 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, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24:
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