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

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

It may be that they can neither be demonstrated nor made mechanically commensurable, but lie in the impenetrable mystery inherent in all life.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

Not that crimes and jests are commensurable or approximable; but they are before the same judge.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various