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
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
Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the revolution.
From Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
In order to make his data commensurable with the phenomena of nature, he discovers or defines bodily conditions for the subjective content which he analyzes.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
