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commensurability|kəˌmɛnsjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ, -ʃər-|
[f. next, or its L. original; see -ity: cf. F. commensurabilité.]
The quality of being commensurable.
1570Billingsley Euclid x. xviii. 247 The commensurabilitie or incommensurabilitie of lives. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xi. 332 A comely commensurability of the whole unto the parts, and the parts betweene themselves. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Phil. IV. xlii. 133 Whenever we look for commensurabilities and equalities in nature, we are disappointed. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Gifts (1885) II. 437 There is no commensurability between a man and my gift. |