单词 | mensurability |
释义 | mensurabilityn. rare. The state or quality of being mensurable. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [noun] > ability to be measured mensurability1678 measurability1696 measurableness1697 quantitativeness1858 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Lucretius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. ii. 66 Whatsoever is, is Extended or hath Geometrical Quantity and Mensurability in it. 1814 D. Stewart Elements Philos. Human Mind II. 511 The common quality which characterizes all of them is their mensurability. 1895 Mind 4 140 (heading) On the mensurability of psychical acts. 1927 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 21 255 (title) The delimitation and mensurability of political phenomena. 1991 Science 16 Aug. 753/1 Difficult concepts such as the irreversibility accompanying species extinctions, the preferences of future generations..and the distinction between commodity value and moral value render the economic mensurability of species preservation extremely difficult. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1678 |
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