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.

It may be that they can neither be demonstrated nor made mechanically commensurable, but lie in the impenetrable mystery inherent in all life.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

It is obvious that every terminating continued fraction reduces to a commensurable number.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various