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Commensurate vs Equality - What's the difference?

commensurate | equality |

As an adjective commensurate

is of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

As a verb commensurate

is to reduce to a common measure.

As a noun equality is

(uncountable) the fact of being equal.

commensurate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
    • 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

    * incommensurate

    Verb

    (commensurat)
  • To reduce to a common measure.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • To proportionate; to adjust.

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    equality

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The fact of being equal.
  • (uncountable, mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
  • (uncountable) The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.

    • Synonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): equivalence parity,

    Antonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): difference, inequality * (equal treatment of people ): discrimination, inequality nonequivilence