Surd

surd
    adj 1: produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced
           consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" [syn: {unvoiced},
           {voiceless}, {surd}, {hard}] [ant: {soft}, {sonant},
           {voiced}]
    n 1: a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords
         [syn: {surd}, {voiceless consonant}]
    

Surd \Surd\, a. [L. surdus deaf (whence the meaning, deaf to
   reason, irrational), perhaps akin to E. swart. Cf.
   {Sordine}.]
   1. Net having the sense of hearing; deaf. [Obs.] "A surd . .
      . generation." --Sir T. Browne.
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   2. Unheard. [Obs.] --Kenrick.
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   3. (Math.) Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in
      rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd
      expression or quantity; a surd number.
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   4. (Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, without
      tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated;
      nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f,
      p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to
      Pronunciation, [sect][sect]169, 179, 180.
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Surd \Surd\, n. (Math.)
   1. A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers;
      thus, [root]2 is a surd.
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   2. (Phon.) A surd element of speech. See {Surd}, a., 4.
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202 Moby Thesaurus words for "surd":
      Gaussian integer, accented, algebraic number, algorismic,
      algorithmic, aliquot, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
      apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated,
      assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, cardinal,
      cardinal number, central, cerebral, check, checked, close,
      complex number, consonant, consonantal, continuant, deaf,
      deaf and dumb, deaf-eared, deaf-mute, deafened, decimal,
      defective number, dental, differential, digital, diphthong,
      dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, dull-eared, earless,
      epenthetic vowel, even, even number, explosive, exponential,
      figural, figurate, figurative, finite, finite number, flat,
      fraction, fractional, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
      glottalization, guttural, hard, hard of hearing, heavy, high,
      imaginary, imaginary number, impair, impossible, infinite,
      infinity, integer, integral, intonated, irrational,
      irrational number, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar,
      laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, logarithmic,
      logometric, low, manner of articulation, mid, mixed number,
      modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute,
      muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, negative, numeral, numerary,
      numerative, numeric, occlusive, odd, open, ordinal, oxytone, pair,
      palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal,
      pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic,
      phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, polygonal number,
      positive, possible, posttonic, prime, prime number,
      prothetic vowel, pure imaginary, radical, rational,
      rational number, real, real number, reciprocal, rectangular number,
      retroflex, round number, rounded, segmental phoneme, semivowel,
      serial number, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stone-deaf,
      stop, stopped, stressed, strong, stunned, submultiple, syllabic,
      syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick,
      thick of hearing, throaty, tonal, tone-deaf, tonic, transcendental,
      transcendental number, transfinite number, transition sound,
      triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unhearing, unrounded, unstressed,
      velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound,
      voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak,
      whole number, wide, word-deaf