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What is the difference between commensurable and proportionate?

commensurable | proportionate |

As adjectives the difference between commensurable and proportionate

is that commensurable is able to be measured using a common standard while proportionate is in proportion; proportional; commensurable.

As a verb proportionate is

to make proportionate.

commensurable

English

(Commensurability)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be measured using a common standard
    • A yard and a foot are commensurable, as both may be measured by inches.
  • Related in size or scale; commensurate or proportionate
  • (mathematics) (of two numbers ) Divisible by the same number WP
    • The numbers 12 and 18 are commensurable, as both are divisible by 6, while 12 and 19 are incommensurable.

    Antonyms

    * incommensurable

    proportionate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
  • * John Locke
    • What is proportionate to his transgression.
  • Harmonious and symmetrical.

    • Antonyms

    * (in proportion) disproportionate, nonproportionate, unproportionate * (harmonious and symmetrical)

    Verb

    (proportionat)
  • To make proportionate.

    • See also

    * apportion English heteronyms ----