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

Nor is Spencer's analysis of the beginning of the process of food-seizure, adduced in support of the theory that happiness and morality are commensurable, confirmed by facts.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

This is usually proved first for the commensurable case and then for the incommensurable one.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

Now there can be no such unlimited succession of descending integers: consequently, it is impossible that a/b+ c/d+, etc. can have a commensurable limit.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene