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
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
The one reduces the primitive animistic world to the lower end of its scale, the other construes it in terms of a purposive utility commensurable with that of human action.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
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 Margaret Cobb Rogers
