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Definition of Surds

Surd
Surd Surd, a. [L. surdus deaf (whence the meaning, deaf to reason, irrational), perhaps akin to E. swart. Cf. Sordine.] 1. Net having the sense of hearing; deaf. [Obs.] ``A surd . . . generation.' --Sir T. Browne. 2. Unheard. [Obs.] --Kenrick. 3. (Math.) Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number. 4. (Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]169, 179, 180.
Surd
Surd Surd, n. (Math.) 1. A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, [root]2 is a surd. 2. (Phon.) A surd element of speech. See Surd, a., 4.

Meaning of Surds from wikipedia

- Look up surd in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Surd may refer to: Surd (mathematics), an unresolved root or sum of roots Radical symbol, the notation...
- {a}},} where a {\displaystyle a} is rational, are called pure quadratic surds; irrational numbers of the form a ± b , {\displaystyle a\pm {\sqrt {b}}...
- and encounter the villainous Jeremiah Surd and Ezekiel Rage. Paralyzed years prior by Race's SWAT team, Surd would try to exact revenge through technology;...
- Surd (Croatian: Šur, Šurda, Slovene: Šurd) is a village in Zala County, Hungary. The village is best known for its production of Christmas trees. The...
- a subfield of the field of algebraic numbers, and include the quadratic surds. Algebraic integer: A root of a monic polynomial with integer coefficients...
- determining unknown quantities). Determining unknown quantities. Surds (includes evaluating surds and their square roots). Kuṭṭaka (for solving indeterminate...
- creation of calculus. Theodorus of Cyrene proved the irrationality of the surds of whole numbers up to 17, but stopped there probably because the algebra...
- In mathematics, the radical symbol, radical sign, root symbol, radix, or surd is a symbol for the square root or higher-order root of a number. The square...
- continued fraction which represents a quadratic surd ζ is purely periodic if and only if ζ is a reduced surd. In fact, Galois showed more than this. He also...
- Equations 4) Indices, Surds and Logarithms 4.1 Law of Indices 4.2 Laws of Surds 4.3 Laws of Logarithms 4.4 Applications of Indices, Surds and Logarithms 5)...