commensurability

American  

[kuh-men-ser-uh-bil-uh-tee] / kəˌmɛn sər əˈbɪl ə ti /

noun

plural

commensurabilities

1. the state or quality of being commensurable.

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Other Word Forms

• non-commensurability noun

Example Sentences

A day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency following last week’s failed coup, Steinmeier said it’s important that “the rule of law, a sense of proportion and commensurability are preserved.”

From Seattle Times

I assume, without trying to prove here, the homogeneity and commensurability of human desires and aversions.

From Project Gutenberg

The ratio, 4:1, is not on the basis of any physical commensurability.

From Project Gutenberg

Among the characteristics recognized by physicists in all perceptible matter—divisibility, commensurability, impenetrability, passivity or inertia, subjection to external forces or energies, external extension or volume, internal quantity or mass—there are none more fundamental than those of volume and mass, or extension and quantity.354 Nowhere, however, do we find a better illustration of the fact that it is impossible to give a definition proper of any supreme category, or even a description of it by the aid of any more elementary notions, than in the attempts of philosophers to describe Quantity.

From Project Gutenberg

As the resultant of these two motions, the effective variation of the latitude is subject to a systematic alternation in a cycle of seven years’ duration, resulting from the commensurability of the two terms.

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