The difference between Disparate and Incommensurable
When used as nouns, disparate means any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things, whereas incommensurable means an incommensurable value or quantity.
When used as adjectives, disparate means composed of inherently different or distinct elements, whereas incommensurable means of two real numbers, such that their ratio is not a fraction of two integers.
check bellow for the other definitions of Disparate and Incommensurable
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Disparate as an adjective:
Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
Examples:
"The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background."
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Disparate as an adjective:
Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus.
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Disparate as a noun (chiefly, in the plural):
Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.
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Incommensurable as an adjective (mathematics):
Of two real numbers, such that their ratio is not a fraction of two integers.
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Incommensurable as an adjective (arithmetics):
Of two integers, having no common integer divisor except 1.
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Incommensurable as an adjective:
Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context; see measurement; contrast with unmeasurable or immeasurable, each of which means not able to be measured at all, the former more generally, the latter generally due to some infinite quality of the thing being described
Examples:
"The side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable."
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Incommensurable as a noun:
An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.