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

For disturbances recurring time after time—owing to commensurability of periods—nearly at the same part of the orbit, would have accumulated until the shape of that orbit was notably changed.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

It seems to me to be equally evident that "more" implies commensurable magnitude; and that commensurability implies the existence of a common unit in the terms compared.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton

There seems reason to admit that Kirkwood's law of commensurability has had some effect in bringing about the present distribution of the matter composing them.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

Ricardo, in his theory of rent, has given a magnificent example of the commensurability of values.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

The properties of commensurability and incommensurability in lines and surfaces, of rational and irrational lines would cease to have any meaning.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac