Commensurate

Quick meaning: Commensurate is an adjective meaning Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

Meaning

Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

commensurate punishments

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

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.

Word Forms

• commensurates
• commensurating
• commensurated

Synonyms for commensurate

Depending on context, synonyms include commensurable, allowable, appropriate, apropos, apposite, apt.

Antonyms for commensurate

Common opposites include incommensurate, discommensurate, dissimilar, bad, improper, inappropriate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include commensurable, proportionate, corresponding, coextensive, coterminous, proportion.

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