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

Adj. numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate†, incommensurable. proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric†, differential, fluxional†, integral, totitive†. positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

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

The terms sonant and surd are, in a scientific point of view, the least exceptionable.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

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