Hours and minutes are commensurable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : The numbers 6 and 9 are commensurable since they are divisible by 3. From Dictionary.com.
Are, however, pleasures and pains strictly commensurable?. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
And then try to yield commensurable data across campuses?. From Wordnik.com. [John Seery: Margaret Spellings' Higher Education Report: Toward the Utter Stupidification of American Higher Education] Reference
As is so often the case, the categories are not commensurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means] Reference
Let us draw up the whole account in terms easily commensurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Contract] Reference
It does not matter whether the weights are commensurable or not. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heavens] Reference
And do not all these seem to you to be commensurable with themselves?. From Wordnik.com. [Laws] Reference
Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Theoretically this may be true; but in real life incommensurables are commensurable. From Wordnik.com. [Tragedy of the Commons (historical)] Reference
Neufeld's words and images are commensurable and rhythmic, and the vernacular is sharp. From Wordnik.com. [A.D.: The Post with the Quotes - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games] Reference
They are designed to negotiate disambiguated, fully commensurable signifying structures. From Wordnik.com. [Preface to _Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies After the World Wide Web_] Reference
The natures of commensurable and incommensurable quantities in their relation to one another. From Wordnik.com. [Laws] Reference
A difficulty may be raised as to whether every motion is commensurable with every other or not. From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
But these are not commensurable: and so the corresponding motions are not commensurable either. From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
Not that crimes and jests are commensurable or approximable; but they are before the same judge. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
The observables represented by two operators A and B are commensurable iff A and B commute, i.e. From Wordnik.com. [Puppet X: 1] Reference
Multi-criteria analysis facilitates trade-offs among a variety of non-commensurable variables and objectives. From Wordnik.com. [Economic, social, and environmental elements of development] Reference
It is only as expressions of such a unit that they are of the same denomination, and therefore commensurable. From Wordnik.com. [A Bland and Deadly Courtesy] Reference
B 600 (permutando, and assuming a value for A and B, so as to make them commensurable with the respectiy sums). From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Rights to procreate, then, appear at the intersection of numerous abiding values that are not easily commensurable. From Wordnik.com. [Parenthood and Procreation] Reference
Thus, techniques like multi-criteria analysis may be required to facilitate trade-offs among non-commensurable variables. From Wordnik.com. [Sustainomics and sustainable development] Reference
That is to say, length is naturally commensurable with length, and breadth with breadth, and depth in like manner with depth?. From Wordnik.com. [Laws] Reference
In other words, experience seems to help only if the values expressed in these ends are themselves commensurable (1997, 168). From Wordnik.com. [Incommensurable Values] Reference
It is very simple that such a peripheral identity will never be commensurable with the existing societal norms and sentiments. From Wordnik.com. [Human Cloning and Its Social Impacts] Reference
This was a numerical theory and therefore was applicable to commensurable magnitudes only; it was no doubt somewhat on the lines of. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Surely any one could foresee that such action would make only for unhappiness, or for no happiness commensurable with the sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Or shall we in the first place deny that things are always commensurable if the same terms are applied to them without equivocation?. From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
The broader justification of an exclusionary reason, then, can consistently be put in terms of the commensurable first-order reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Reasoning] Reference
Its facilities here are commensurable with its duty of placing thousands of all countries in instantaneous communication with their homes. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
I would argue that degrees in different fields are not necessarily commensurable, at least insofar as their effects on income are concerned. From Wordnik.com. [The “Boy Crisis” In Education] Reference
But water and speech are not commensurable in respect of clearness, since that which primarily contains the attribute is different in the two cases. From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
I shall leave aside the differences, such as they may be, between our views, which are hardly commensurable with what is at stake in this complexity. From Wordnik.com. [From the (Ever) Complex to the (Never) Simple: A Response to R. Paul Yoder's] Reference
But the motives to action are, like the physical forces, commensurable. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
Conversation, as we know, denotes an interchange of commensurable meanings. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
The question: Are there any commensurable relations between a circle and other Geometrical figures?. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
Thus, categories are crucial to making market goods commensurable, which in turn is critical to enabling market exchange. From Wordnik.com. [HBS Working Knowledge] Reference
In order that the punishments of different classes of crime may be proportional, the punishments should (3) be commensurable. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
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