commensurability
- noun
- /kəˌmɛnʃəˈræbɪlɪti/
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comparabilidad
- The commensurability of the two datasets allowed researchers to make valid comparisons.
How can they be brought into, let's call it, commensurability with each other?
- How can they be brought into, let's call it, commensurability with each other?
Examples
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Their findings illustrate the commensurability of economic and environmental factors when assessing sustainability.
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But some comparative assessment, some commensurability, is possible, and we start with the presence of gross evils sustained at least in part by gross untruths.
Academic text (1999) -
How can they be brought into, let's call it, commensurability with each other?
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Such an assertion would reinstate the very commensurability among high values that he is trying to discredit in his aesthetic strategy.
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They make a direct appeal to commensurability, in effect asking me, as a middle-class American researcher and long-time acquaintance, to understand and appreciate their vision of the quality of family life and to present them in that light.
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The high degree of commensurability between the Mesoamerican flower world and the Euro-Christian concept of heaven would have made the former seem unremarkable or perhaps even undetectable to nonnatives who saw or even wore nuns' floral trappings.
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In mathematics, commensurability is important for determining the relationship between different units of measurement.
Synonyms
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How similar two or more things are so you can look at them together
The ability to be seen as equal in value or meaning
How Commensurable
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
commensurability = commensurable (semi-transparent) = com + mensur + able + ity
The noun is formed by adding '-ity' to 'commensurable'; the internal root 'mensur-' is a Latin combining form rather than a standalone English base, and the meaning is somewhat general but still often used in technical contexts.
Etymology
Commensurability comes from Latin parts com- 'together' and mensura 'measure', so it literally means 'measuring together'. In general use it means two things can be measured or compared by the same standard, so you can judge them fairly.