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

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)

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

A surd is a radical whose meaning cannot be exactly ascertained.

From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson