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
But the motives to action are, like the physical forces, commensurable.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen
Any quantity, commensurable or incommensurable, can be expressed uniquely as a simple continued fraction, terminating in the case of a commensurable quantity, non-terminating in the case of an incommensurable quantity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
In arithmetic he was the first to expound the theory of means and of proportion as applied to commensurable quantities.
From Archimedes Men of Science by Thomas Little Heath
