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

Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the revolution.

From Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

I wish to know of all your treasonable doings so as to make your punishment commensurable with your merits.”

From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Madison, Lucy Foster

Magnitudes commensurable, are those which one and the same measure doth measure: Contrariwise, Magnitudes incommensurable are those, which the same measure cannot measure.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William