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発音

• enPR: ĭră'sh(ə)nəl, IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
• 韻: -æʃənəl

形容詞

irrational (comparative more irrational, superlative most irrational)

1. Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.

   an irrational decision

   • July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]

     Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.

2. (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.

   The number π is irrational.

   Antonym: rational

   Hyponyms: transcendental, uncomputable

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名詞

irrational (複数形 irrationals)

1. A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24:

     The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.

Further reading

• irrational at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “irrational”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “irrational”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “irrational”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “irrational” (US) / “irrational” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.