Commensurate

/kəˈmɛnʃəɹət/ · adjective

Meaning

Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
2. (physics) Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
3. (mathematics) Describing two numbers within the same Archimedean class, so that neither is infinitely larger than the other.
4. To reduce to a common measure.
5. To proportionate; to adjust.

Example Sentences

commensurate punishments

If it is essential in our interests to maintain a quasi-permanent position of power on the Asian mainland as against the Chinese then we must be prepared to continue to pay the present cost in Vietnam indefinitely and to meet any escalation on the other side with at least a commensurate escalation of commitment of our own.

The $100 settlement was hardly commensurate with the humiliation his client had experienced.

Kettering will become an important interchange for passengers making these journeys, and EMR is considering improvements to the station's facilities commensurate with this status.

Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state.

Crucially, every positive surreal number is commensurate with exactly one ω-power, in the following sense.

For that division is not naturally founded, but artificially set down, and by agreement, as the aptest terms to define or commensurate the longitude of places.

The rare temper and proportion, which the Church of England useth in commensurating the Forms of Absolution to the degrees of preparation and necessity, is to be observed

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• more commensurate
• most commensurate
• commensurates
• commensurating
• commensurated

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