incommensurate

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“India’s defense modernization over this period has been directionally correct, but at a pace and level of effort that is incommensurate with its threat environment.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

The two surfaces should be incommensurate, which means the potential 'hills' in the molecular structure of one surface should not fit to the potential 'wells' of the other surface.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

Despite the complexity of these latter ideas, her use of diagrams and figures helps to reinforce their approachability—although in some cases their incommensurate simplicity feels unsatisfying.

From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2023

“He sought unprecedented relief, and his team pressed the case in a slapdash manner incommensurate with the gravity of the subject matter.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2021

Ambitious beyond all bounds, but with a capacity singularly incommensurate with his ambition, he believed that money could accomplish everything.

From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of