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commensurable

[kuh-men-ser-uh-buhl, -sher-uh-] / kəˈmɛn sər ə bəl, -ʃər ə- /


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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

But the motives to action are, like the physical forces, commensurable.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

The new coins are commensurable with, and in a finite ratio to, the old ones.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene




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