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 main proposition, that two magnitudes balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes, is proved first for commensurable and then for incommensurable magnitudes.

From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little

Nor is Spencer's analysis of the beginning of the process of food-seizure, adduced in support of the theory that happiness and morality are commensurable, confirmed by facts.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

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