commensurable
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Difficulties have resulted from the fact that these three periods are not commensurable; that’s a fancy way of saying that one does not divide evenly into any of the others.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The analogous is not always the same as the commensurable.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2011
It is clear that if the pulleys are of commensurable diameters, and are rigidly connected — say by belting which neither stretches nor slips — the polishing tool will describe a closed curve.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
Now a quantitative ratio is between commensurable quantities.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
This is usually proved first for the commensurable case and then for the incommensurable one.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
