Commensurate vs Coextensive - What's the difference?
commensurate | coextensive |
Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
To reduce to a common measure.
To proportionate; to adjust.
Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
(logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
* {{quote-book, year=1995, title=A Companion to Metaphysics, author=Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa
As adjectives the difference between commensurate and coextensive
is that commensurate is of a proportionate or similar measurable standard while coextensive is having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.As a verb commensurate
is to reduce to a common measure.commensurate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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. - Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam by Senator Mike Mansfield, December 18, 1962
Antonyms
* incommensurateVerb
(commensurat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)
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* * * * ----coextensive
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Alternative forms
* co-extensiveAdjective
(-)- The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive .
- His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
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