surd

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

I will avoid equations, And shun the naughty surd, I must beware the perfect square, Through it young girls have erred: And when men mention Rule of Three Pretend I have not heard.

From Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Miller, Alice Duer

Just the same, two and two always make four," he said to himself; "but in my calculations perhaps I have forgotten the surd.

From The Secret of the Night by Leroux, Gaston

S has two sounds, soft, or surd, as in soft and this, and hard, or sonant, as in has and wise.

From Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)

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