commensurable

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Difficulties have resulted from the fact that these three periods are not commensurable; that’s a fancy way of saying that one does not divide evenly into any of the others.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

The analogous is not always the same as the commensurable.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2011

Although the reports are more explicit, they are still couched in general terms, and not commensurable.

From Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence by Rogers, Margaret Cobb

In arithmetic he was the first to expound the theory of means and of proportion as applied to commensurable quantities.

From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little

This is usually proved first for the commensurable case and then for the incommensurable one.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene