commensurate
verb
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Pronunciation: /kəˈmɛnʃəɹət/ / /kəˈmɛnsəɹət/
adj
Etymology: First attested in 1641; borrowed from Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrātus, perfect passive participle of mēnsūrō (“to measure, to estimate”), (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin mēnsūra (“measure”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
- Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
“commensurate punishments”
“The rewards will be commensurate with the efforts made.”
- Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
- Describing two numbers within the same Archimedean class, so that neither is infinitely larger than the other.
“Crucially, every positive surreal number is commensurate with exactly one ω-power, in the following sense.”
verb
Etymology: First attested in 1641; borrowed from Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrātus, perfect passive participle of mēnsūrō (“to measure, to estimate”), (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin mēnsūra (“measure”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
- To reduce to a common measure.
“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.”
- To proportionate; to adjust.
“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”