surd

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It offers private, group and corporate surf lessons, as well as an after-school program, surd camps and rentals, according to its website.

From Washington Times • Aug. 12, 2021

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

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir

Conversely every positive quadratic surd number, when expressed as a simple continued fraction, will give rise to a recurring fraction.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various

Do you mean to say that you are not able to tell me what a surd is?

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James

Adj. numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate†, incommensurable. proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric†, differential, fluxional†, integral, totitive†. positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark