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adjective
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Phonetics. voiceless (opposed to sonant).
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Mathematics. (of a quantity) not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; irrational.
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Surd
is always a great word to know.
So is dental. Does it mean:
| to change a speech sound to an articulation requiring less effort, as from geminate to nongeminate or from stop to fricative |
| articulated with the tongue tip touching the back of the upper front teeth or immediately above them |
Origin:
1545–55; < Latin surdus dull-sounding, mute, deaf
1545–55; < Latin surdus dull-sounding, mute, deaf
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Word Origin & History
surd
1551, "irrational" (of numbers), from L. surdus "unheard, silent, dull," possibly related to susurrus "a muttering, whispering" (see susurration). The mathematical sense is from the use of L. surdus to translate Ar. (jadhr) asamm "deaf (root)," itself a loan-translation
EXPANDof Gk. alogos, lit. "speechless, without reason" (Euclid bk. x, Def.). In Fr., sourd remains the principal word for "deaf."
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