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commensurable

adjective as in proportional

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Example Sentences

In arithmetic he was the first to expound the theory of means and of proportion as applied to commensurable quantities.

In order that the punishments of different classes of crime may be proportional, the punishments should be commensurable.

The possible gain is, I think, in no way commensurable with the probable risks of panic and disorder.

Not that crimes and jests are commensurable or approximable; but they are before the same judge.

Thus we shall have an unlimited number of terms; these will be the numbers called fractional, rational or commensurable.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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