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

X. actu, in deede, are Asymmetra, incommensurable: And yet they are potenti�, by power, symmetra, commensurable, to witt by their quadrates: For the quadrate of the diagony is double to the quadrate of the side.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

Thus, from the fact that two brains, like that of the ape and that of the man, are very much alike, we cannot conclude that the corresponding consciousnesses are comparable or commensurable.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

"Abstinence" and labor have pain as a common element, and so are commensurable.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.