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 new coins are commensurable with, and in a finite ratio to, the old ones.

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

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

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