commensurable

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They are either directly commensurable, as in the cases treated of in the consideration of the mechanical powers; or, if different forms of energy enter into cause and effect, such as mechanical energy, electrical energy, heat, these different forms are severally reducible to units, between which equivalents have been established.

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  1. adjective Measurable by a common standard.
  2. adjective Commensurate; proportionate.
  3. adjective Mathematics Exactly divisible by the same unit an integral number of times. Used of two quantities.

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  • Salary and benefits will be commensurable to educational qualifications and working experience. —  Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • After annealing, a change of about 14o was calculated from ellipsometric spectra for the head NO2 group orientation with respect to the surface plane, which would provoke a commensurable decrease of the aliphatic chain tilt angle. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It is not money that renders the commodities commensurable. —  Roughtheory.org
  • Because all commodities, as values, are objectified human labour, and therefore in themselves commensurable, their values can be communally measured in one and the same specific commodity, and this commodity can be converted into the common measure of values, that is into money. —  Roughtheory.org
  • But if it did, the task would seem to be incomparably more complicated if there were serious doubts about whether our science-based system for understanding neural activity is commensurable with other modes of understanding. —  Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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  1. Late Latin commēnsūrābilis : Latin com-, com- + mēnsūrābilis, measurable (from mēnsūrāre, to measure; see commensurate).

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  1. = French commensurable = Spanish conmensurable = Portuguese commensuravel = Italian commensurabile, from Late Latin commensurabilis, from commensurare, reduce to a common measure: see commensurate, and cf. commeasurable, mensurable.
 

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