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

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

The question: Are there any commensurable relations between a circle and other Geometrical figures?

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