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- Mathematics (of a number) irrational【数】不尽根的。
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- Phonetics (of a speech sound) uttered with the breath and not the voice (e.g. f, k, p, s, t)【语音】清音的(如f, k, p, s, t)。
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- Mathematics a surd number, especially the irrational root of an integer【数】不尽根(尤指整数的不尽根)。
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- Phonetics a surd consonant【语音】清音。
词源
mid 16th cent.: from Latin surdus 'deaf, mute'; as a mathematical term, translating Greek (Euclid) alogos 'irrational, speechless', apparently via Arabic jiḏr aṣamm, literally 'deaf root'. Sense 2 dates from the mid 18th cent.