commensurable
- adjective
- /kəˈmɛnʃərəbəl/
- Specialized
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comensurable
- In mathematics, different units can be commensurable if they can be converted into one another.
- commensurable in value
Examples
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What gave sympathy an ethical point for Smith was its power to motivate agents to modify their conduct to a pitch commensurable with social life, a pitch that was disciplined by the standards of value employed by spectators in the act of judging.
Academic text (2001) -
The interdependency of the systems of oppression, however, does not mean that these social categories are equivalent or commensurable.
Academic text (2018) -
The best possible world must be better than, and hence commensurable with, every other world.
Academic text (1998) -
In every commensurable aspect, I fulfill the qualifications for the office I hold best.
Fiction book (1992) -
A person sufficiently wise and dedicated can discover this commensurable harmony.
Academic text (1999) -
Sometimes, as when there is mutuality, the exchange is commensurable.
Academic text (2001) -
If the critic is correct, then rigorous justice and mercy are commensurable.
Academic text (1999) -
To avoid these pitfalls, family-facilitated autonomy must be commensurable, compatible, or consistent with individual autonomy.
Academic text (2016) -
But by much the same token, it is hard to believe that this is the best world within the cluster of worlds commensurable with it, for nothing seems easier than imagining worlds better than this.
Academic text (1998) -
Akabayashi justifies family-facilitated informed consent by appealing to "a form of autonomy" commensurable with the absolute principle of autonomy, part of the universal set of moral principles.
Academic text (2016)
Antonyms
How Commensurable
- Specialized
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
commensurable = mensurable (opaque) = com + mensur + able
Although the word can be segmented as 'com-' plus 'mensurable', the learned Latinate prefix and the specialized sense 'measurable by the same standard' are not readily inferable for most B1 learners.
Etymology
Commensurable comes from the Latin parts com- 'together' and mensura 'measure', the same root as the English word measure. So, when two things are commensurable they can be measured with the same unit and easily compared.