COMMENSURABLE

commensurable. Commensurable, a. having some common measure

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Com‐men″su‐ra‐ble (?), a. [[L. commensurabilis; pref. com- + mensurable. See Commensurate, and cf. Commeasurable.]] Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. — Com‐men″su‐ra‐ble‐ness, n. Commensurable numbers or quantities (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches. — Numbers, or Quantities, commensurable in power, those whose squares are commensurable.