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

Since the fraction is infinite it cannot be commensurable and therefore its value is a quadratic surd number.

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

What meaneth this old dotard, surd and absurd, thus to control our actions?

From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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