Commensurable vs Comparable - What's the difference?
commensurable | comparable |
Able to be measured using a common standard
Related in size or scale; commensurate or proportionate
(mathematics) (of two numbers ) Divisible by the same number
Able to be compared (to).
Similar (to); like.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
(grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.
Something suitable for comparison.
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, passage=And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables , because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months. }}
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In mathematics terms the difference between commensurable and comparable
is that commensurable is (of two numbers) Divisible by the same number while comparable is constituting a pair in a particular partial order.As adjectives the difference between commensurable and comparable
is that commensurable is able to be measured using a common standard while comparable is able to be compared (to).As a noun comparable is
something suitable for comparison.commensurable
English
(Commensurability)Adjective
(en adjective)- A yard and a foot are commensurable, as both may be measured by inches.
WP
- The numbers 12 and 18 are commensurable, as both are divisible by 6, while 12 and 19 are incommensurable.
Antonyms
* incommensurablecomparable
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
Noun
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