Produced without vibration of the vocal cords.
A consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords.
1 What meaneth this old dotard, surd and absurd, thus to control our actions?
2 Do you mean to say that you are not able to tell me what a surd is?
3 The problems have a surd or irrational element in them; and to solve them would be to bring reason into collision with itself.
4 We will take them a journey which shall much astonish the venerable Surd .
5 I was stupefied by surds ; and I entered the university.
6 For Furnace Second were no invitations to Professor Surd 's house.
7 In front of me stood Professor Surd himself, looking down with a not unpleasant smile.
8 And, therefore, it came that Furnace Second was reduced to zero in Professor Surd 's estimation.
9 Around me were the walls of Professor Surd 's study.
10 Professor Surd was at a faculty meeting.
11 Under me was a hard, unyielding plane which I knew too well was Professor Surd 's study floor.
12 At length Professor Surd came in.
13 These ' surds ' of metaphysics ought to occasion no more difficulty in speculation than a perpetually recurring fraction in arithmetic.
15 Professor Surd had a daughter.
16 Abscissa Surd was as perfectly symmetrical as Giotto's circle, and as pure, withal, as the mathematics her father taught.
Other examples for "surd"
Grammar, pronunciation and more