surd
Example Sentences
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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
Again, he points out that the surd aspirate h is heard in some languages, but is hardly audible in others.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
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 Sir Henry Jones
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 Alice Duer Miller
Coercion is the surd in almost all social theory, except the Machiavellian.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
