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).
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Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
commensurate punishments
The rewards will be commensurate with the efforts made.
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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.1962, Senator Mike Mansfield, Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam:
The $100 settlement was hardly commensurate with the humiliation his client had experienced.1981 February 7, David Morris, “Gay Man Wins Suit Against Police”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 4:
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.2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 54:
Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state.2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
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Mathematics, Sciences 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.2013, Aaron N. Siegel, Combinatorial Game Theory, →ISBN, page 424:
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).
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.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
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 observed1679, Timothy Puller, The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted: