English Explanatory Dictionary

commensurable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Able to be measured using a common standard.
  2. Related in size or scale; commensurate or proportionate.
  3. (of two or more numbers) Divisible by the same number ᵂᴾ

Word forms

commensurable more commensurable most commensurable

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin Latin commensurabilis (“having a common measure”) in 1550s, from Latin com- (“with”) + mensurabilis (“measurable”). Equivalent to com- + mensurable.

Antonyms

incommensurable

Derived words

commensurableness commensurably noncommensurable uncommensurable
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