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

"Abstinence" and labor have pain as a common element, and so are commensurable.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

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

From Archimedes Men of Science by Heath, Thomas Little

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

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various