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

Review the method of finding the square root of a binomial surd.

From A Review of Algebra by Rivenburg, Romeyn Henry

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

W is ordinarily pronounced as v, but before surd consonants it has the sound f.

From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall

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