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

The question: Are there any commensurable relations between a circle and other Geometrical figures?

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

His definitions hold for commensurable as well as for incommensurable quantities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

Therefore two magnitudes, the one a foote long, the other two foote long, are commensurable; because the magnitude of one foote doth measure them both, the first once, the second twice.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William