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commensurable

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1. commensurable - Adjective

2. commensurable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.

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Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes. Archimedes

hours and minutes are commensurable Source: Internet

Others have said that pleasure is not commensurable across people with varying identities and thus the idea of aggregating utility is impossible. Source: Internet

Thus, dimensional analysis may be used as a sanity check of physical equations: the two sides of any equation must be commensurable or have the same dimensions. Source: Internet

Incommensurability did not concern Feyerabend greatly, because he believed that even when theories are commensurable (i.e. can be compared), the outcome of the comparison should not necessarily rule out either theory. Source: Internet

Physical quantities that are commensurable have the same dimension and can be directly compared to each other, even if they are originally expressed in differing units of measure. Source: Internet

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