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Surd

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Noun

1. surd, voiceless consonant

a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords

Adjective

2. hard, surd, unvoiced, voiceless

produced without vibration of the vocal cords

Example Sentences:
'unvoiced consonants such as p' and k' and s''

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Surd

see synonyms of surd
noun
1. mathematics
an expression containing one or more irrational roots of numbers, such as 2√3 + 3√2 + 6
2. phonetics
a voiceless consonant, such as (t)
adjective
3. 
of or relating to a surd
4. obsolete
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Surd

see synonyms of surd
adjective
1.  Ancient Mathematics
irrational
2.  Phonetics
voiceless (sense 6)
noun
3.  Ancient Mathematics
an irrational number or quantity; specif., a root which can be expressed only approximately
5 is a surd
4.  Phonetics
a voiceless sound

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Surd

see synonyms of surd
n.
1. Mathematics An irrational number, such as √2.
2. Linguistics A voiceless sound in speech.
adj.
Linguistics
Voiceless, as a sound.

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