Definition of commensurable in English:

commensurable

adjective kəˈmɛnʃ(ə)rəb(ə)l

1Measurable by the same standard.
the finite is not commensurable with the infinite
Example sentencesExamples
- But the Human Rights Act has also done an excellent job of promoting the idea that individual rights can be negotiated, because they are commensurable with other considerations.
- Are these two instances of Dewey's intellectual character really so commensurable?
- It is through exchange that non-identical individuals and performances become commensurable and identical.
- They encouraged practices and beliefs that were commensurable with a disenchanted outlook.
- Modern utilitarians are right to insist that utility is not reducible to pleasure, and that not all kinds of utility are measurable or commensurable, and that it is not always appropriate even to try to measure these utilities.
- As far as dogs are concerned the interesting thing to me about dogs is that it's always been said that the dingo has a commensurable relationship with Aborigines.
- Value as a structure of signification thus radically changes the way we compare things by making commodities commensurable, despite their qualitative differences.
- Words and their meanings are not entirely commensurable.
- Opening up the aesthetic possibilities for translation raised the problem, however, of determining which style might be best suited to making a translation commensurable in its effects to its original.
- Other than value counted in units of money, there's no commensurable way of talking about it.
- Because socialists demand the maximum freedom for individuals commensurable with the freedom of all.
- There is a principle which says that the level of opposing forces should be commensurable.
- The modest role that Germany has imposed upon itself, he emphasised, was not commensurable with its position in Europe and the world.
- Where the experience of women and men is commensurable, women are granted access to human rights in the same way as men.
- Why do people say you cannot compare things, that they are incommensurable, when they are so obviously comparable or commensurable?
- Most of the complications are not commensurable and their weighting is often determined by ideological preferences.
Synonyms
similar, close, near, approximate, akin, equivalent, corresponding, commensurate, proportional, proportionate, parallel, analogous, related
2commensurable torare Proportionate to.
Example sentencesExamples
- The salary given is commensurable to educational qualifications and working experience of the candidate.
- Within that framework we prepare the plan of the security system commensurable to the existing risks.
- The high-skilled IT specialists are not paid the salaries commensurable to the European ones because of the costs of life and the salary level in Ukraine.
- The service of the members of the Committee is commensurable to the service of the Board of Directors.
- It offers production potential accessible to all countries and commensurable to their needs.
Synonyms
appropriate to, in keeping with, in line with, consistent with, corresponding to, in accordance with, according to, relative to, in proportion with, proportionate to
3Mathematics
(of numbers) in a ratio equal to a ratio of integers.
Example sentencesExamples
- The aim of Book X is to investigate the commensurable and the incommensurable, the rational and irrational continuous quantities.’
- Dehn had studied the squaring problem in 1903 and proved that a rectangle can be squared if and only if its sides are commensurable and that if it can be squared then there are infinitely many perfect squarings.
- Book five lays out the work of Eudoxus on proportion applied to commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes.
- In this he discussed whether the celestial motions are commensurable or, expressed another way, is there a basic time interval so that the day, month, and year are all exact integer multiples of it.
Synonyms
commensurate, relative, proportional, proportionate, correspondent, comparable, equivalent, equal, consistent, parallel, correlated, analogous, complementary, matching

Derivatives

commensurability

noun kəmɛnʃ(ə)rəˈbɪlɪti

The last decade has seen many attempts to carry out multiple criterion synchronization without assuming such commensurability.
Example sentencesExamples
- We might then consider what the modes and means of exchange are in the justice of both Tourgee and Chesnutt - what their ratios are and how they define commensurability.
- Such language brings us back to Dimock's premise of commensurability, the law's exercise in abstractions that ‘assigns due weight to disparate things’.
- The notion of interdependence between elements of complex traditions also tells us something about commensurability and relativism.
- The attempt to bind those fields closer together leads Herbert at times into inconsistencies that point up the difficulty of finding comprehensible commensurability across disciplines.

commensurably

adverb

The contracted fees from the television station for the warm-up matches will be commensurably less.
Example sentencesExamples
- A number of alien workers due to their hard-working and individual high-rate of productivity were better remunerated commensurably.
- As the shares the candidates desire exceed 100 per cent, they will be reduced commensurably down to 14.3 per cent each.
- If Scotland qualify for the quarter-finals, the prices will be commensurably higher as the tournament enters its closing stages.
- The cost of tall buildings will be commensurably greater and uneconomical in relation to the renting offices spaces and their prices.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from late Latin commensurabilis, from com- 'together' + mensurabilis, from mensurare 'to measure'.

Definition of commensurable in US English:

commensurable

adjective

1Measurable by the same standard.
the finite is not commensurable with the infinite
Example sentencesExamples
- Modern utilitarians are right to insist that utility is not reducible to pleasure, and that not all kinds of utility are measurable or commensurable, and that it is not always appropriate even to try to measure these utilities.
- Why do people say you cannot compare things, that they are incommensurable, when they are so obviously comparable or commensurable?
- Are these two instances of Dewey's intellectual character really so commensurable?
- As far as dogs are concerned the interesting thing to me about dogs is that it's always been said that the dingo has a commensurable relationship with Aborigines.
- There is a principle which says that the level of opposing forces should be commensurable.
- Where the experience of women and men is commensurable, women are granted access to human rights in the same way as men.
- Words and their meanings are not entirely commensurable.
- Most of the complications are not commensurable and their weighting is often determined by ideological preferences.
- Because socialists demand the maximum freedom for individuals commensurable with the freedom of all.
- The modest role that Germany has imposed upon itself, he emphasised, was not commensurable with its position in Europe and the world.
- But the Human Rights Act has also done an excellent job of promoting the idea that individual rights can be negotiated, because they are commensurable with other considerations.
- Opening up the aesthetic possibilities for translation raised the problem, however, of determining which style might be best suited to making a translation commensurable in its effects to its original.
- It is through exchange that non-identical individuals and performances become commensurable and identical.
- Other than value counted in units of money, there's no commensurable way of talking about it.
- Value as a structure of signification thus radically changes the way we compare things by making commodities commensurable, despite their qualitative differences.
- They encouraged practices and beliefs that were commensurable with a disenchanted outlook.
Synonyms
similar, close, near, approximate, akin, equivalent, corresponding, commensurate, proportional, proportionate, parallel, analogous, related
2commensurable torare Proportionate to.
Example sentencesExamples
- The salary given is commensurable to educational qualifications and working experience of the candidate.
- It offers production potential accessible to all countries and commensurable to their needs.
- The service of the members of the Committee is commensurable to the service of the Board of Directors.
- The high-skilled IT specialists are not paid the salaries commensurable to the European ones because of the costs of life and the salary level in Ukraine.
- Within that framework we prepare the plan of the security system commensurable to the existing risks.
Synonyms
appropriate to, in keeping with, in line with, consistent with, corresponding to, in accordance with, according to, relative to, in proportion with, proportionate to
3Mathematics
(of numbers) in a ratio equal to a ratio of integers.
Example sentencesExamples
- Book five lays out the work of Eudoxus on proportion applied to commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes.
- The aim of Book X is to investigate the commensurable and the incommensurable, the rational and irrational continuous quantities.’
- Dehn had studied the squaring problem in 1903 and proved that a rectangle can be squared if and only if its sides are commensurable and that if it can be squared then there are infinitely many perfect squarings.
- In this he discussed whether the celestial motions are commensurable or, expressed another way, is there a basic time interval so that the day, month, and year are all exact integer multiples of it.
Synonyms
commensurate, relative, proportional, proportionate, correspondent, comparable, equivalent, equal, consistent, parallel, correlated, analogous, complementary, matching

Origin

Mid 16th century: from late Latin commensurabilis, from com- ‘together’ + mensurabilis, from mensurare ‘to measure’.

单词	commensurable
释义	Definition of commensurable in English: commensurable adjective kəˈmɛnʃ(ə)rəb(ə)l 1Measurable by the same standard. the finite is not commensurable with the infinite Example sentencesExamples But the Human Rights Act has also done an excellent job of promoting the idea that individual rights can be negotiated, because they are commensurable with other considerations. Are these two instances of Dewey's intellectual character really so commensurable? It is through exchange that non-identical individuals and performances become commensurable and identical. They encouraged practices and beliefs that were commensurable with a disenchanted outlook. Modern utilitarians are right to insist that utility is not reducible to pleasure, and that not all kinds of utility are measurable or commensurable, and that it is not always appropriate even to try to measure these utilities. As far as dogs are concerned the interesting thing to me about dogs is that it's always been said that the dingo has a commensurable relationship with Aborigines. Value as a structure of signification thus radically changes the way we compare things by making commodities commensurable, despite their qualitative differences. Words and their meanings are not entirely commensurable. Opening up the aesthetic possibilities for translation raised the problem, however, of determining which style might be best suited to making a translation commensurable in its effects to its original. Other than value counted in units of money, there's no commensurable way of talking about it. Because socialists demand the maximum freedom for individuals commensurable with the freedom of all. There is a principle which says that the level of opposing forces should be commensurable. The modest role that Germany has imposed upon itself, he emphasised, was not commensurable with its position in Europe and the world. Where the experience of women and men is commensurable, women are granted access to human rights in the same way as men. Why do people say you cannot compare things, that they are incommensurable, when they are so obviously comparable or commensurable? Most of the complications are not commensurable and their weighting is often determined by ideological preferences. Synonyms similar, close, near, approximate, akin, equivalent, corresponding, commensurate, proportional, proportionate, parallel, analogous, related 2commensurable torare Proportionate to. Example sentencesExamples The salary given is commensurable to educational qualifications and working experience of the candidate. Within that framework we prepare the plan of the security system commensurable to the existing risks. The high-skilled IT specialists are not paid the salaries commensurable to the European ones because of the costs of life and the salary level in Ukraine. The service of the members of the Committee is commensurable to the service of the Board of Directors. It offers production potential accessible to all countries and commensurable to their needs. Synonyms appropriate to, in keeping with, in line with, consistent with, corresponding to, in accordance with, according to, relative to, in proportion with, proportionate to 3Mathematics (of numbers) in a ratio equal to a ratio of integers. Example sentencesExamples The aim of Book X is to investigate the commensurable and the incommensurable, the rational and irrational continuous quantities.’ Dehn had studied the squaring problem in 1903 and proved that a rectangle can be squared if and only if its sides are commensurable and that if it can be squared then there are infinitely many perfect squarings. Book five lays out the work of Eudoxus on proportion applied to commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes. In this he discussed whether the celestial motions are commensurable or, expressed another way, is there a basic time interval so that the day, month, and year are all exact integer multiples of it. Synonyms commensurate, relative, proportional, proportionate, correspondent, comparable, equivalent, equal, consistent, parallel, correlated, analogous, complementary, matching Derivatives commensurability noun kəmɛnʃ(ə)rəˈbɪlɪti The last decade has seen many attempts to carry out multiple criterion synchronization without assuming such commensurability. Example sentencesExamples We might then consider what the modes and means of exchange are in the justice of both Tourgee and Chesnutt - what their ratios are and how they define commensurability. Such language brings us back to Dimock's premise of commensurability, the law's exercise in abstractions that ‘assigns due weight to disparate things’. The notion of interdependence between elements of complex traditions also tells us something about commensurability and relativism. The attempt to bind those fields closer together leads Herbert at times into inconsistencies that point up the difficulty of finding comprehensible commensurability across disciplines. commensurably adverb The contracted fees from the television station for the warm-up matches will be commensurably less. Example sentencesExamples A number of alien workers due to their hard-working and individual high-rate of productivity were better remunerated commensurably. As the shares the candidates desire exceed 100 per cent, they will be reduced commensurably down to 14.3 per cent each. If Scotland qualify for the quarter-finals, the prices will be commensurably higher as the tournament enters its closing stages. The cost of tall buildings will be commensurably greater and uneconomical in relation to the renting offices spaces and their prices. Origin Mid 16th century: from late Latin commensurabilis, from com- 'together' + mensurabilis, from mensurare 'to measure'. Definition of commensurable in US English: commensurable adjective 1Measurable by the same standard. the finite is not commensurable with the infinite Example sentencesExamples Modern utilitarians are right to insist that utility is not reducible to pleasure, and that not all kinds of utility are measurable or commensurable, and that it is not always appropriate even to try to measure these utilities. Why do people say you cannot compare things, that they are incommensurable, when they are so obviously comparable or commensurable? Are these two instances of Dewey's intellectual character really so commensurable? As far as dogs are concerned the interesting thing to me about dogs is that it's always been said that the dingo has a commensurable relationship with Aborigines. There is a principle which says that the level of opposing forces should be commensurable. Where the experience of women and men is commensurable, women are granted access to human rights in the same way as men. Words and their meanings are not entirely commensurable. Most of the complications are not commensurable and their weighting is often determined by ideological preferences. Because socialists demand the maximum freedom for individuals commensurable with the freedom of all. The modest role that Germany has imposed upon itself, he emphasised, was not commensurable with its position in Europe and the world. But the Human Rights Act has also done an excellent job of promoting the idea that individual rights can be negotiated, because they are commensurable with other considerations. Opening up the aesthetic possibilities for translation raised the problem, however, of determining which style might be best suited to making a translation commensurable in its effects to its original. It is through exchange that non-identical individuals and performances become commensurable and identical. Other than value counted in units of money, there's no commensurable way of talking about it. Value as a structure of signification thus radically changes the way we compare things by making commodities commensurable, despite their qualitative differences. They encouraged practices and beliefs that were commensurable with a disenchanted outlook. Synonyms similar, close, near, approximate, akin, equivalent, corresponding, commensurate, proportional, proportionate, parallel, analogous, related 2commensurable torare Proportionate to. Example sentencesExamples The salary given is commensurable to educational qualifications and working experience of the candidate. It offers production potential accessible to all countries and commensurable to their needs. The service of the members of the Committee is commensurable to the service of the Board of Directors. The high-skilled IT specialists are not paid the salaries commensurable to the European ones because of the costs of life and the salary level in Ukraine. Within that framework we prepare the plan of the security system commensurable to the existing risks. Synonyms appropriate to, in keeping with, in line with, consistent with, corresponding to, in accordance with, according to, relative to, in proportion with, proportionate to 3Mathematics (of numbers) in a ratio equal to a ratio of integers. Example sentencesExamples Book five lays out the work of Eudoxus on proportion applied to commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes. The aim of Book X is to investigate the commensurable and the incommensurable, the rational and irrational continuous quantities.’ Dehn had studied the squaring problem in 1903 and proved that a rectangle can be squared if and only if its sides are commensurable and that if it can be squared then there are infinitely many perfect squarings. In this he discussed whether the celestial motions are commensurable or, expressed another way, is there a basic time interval so that the day, month, and year are all exact integer multiples of it. Synonyms commensurate, relative, proportional, proportionate, correspondent, comparable, equivalent, equal, consistent, parallel, correlated, analogous, complementary, matching Origin Mid 16th century: from late Latin commensurabilis, from com- ‘together’ + mensurabilis, from mensurare ‘to measure’.
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