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

The clear-cut, luminous, conception of the world which expresses everything in terms of commensurable concepts is thoroughly Aristotelian.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

Therefore two magnitudes, the one a foote long, the other two foote long, are commensurable; because the magnitude of one foote doth measure them both, the first once, the second twice.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

Consequently π2 cannot be commensurable: that is, π is an incommensurable quantity, and so also is π2.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene