Commensurates vs Commensurated - What's the difference?
commensurates | commensurated |
(commensurate)
Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
To reduce to a common measure.
To proportionate; to adjust.
As verbs the difference between commensurates and commensurated
is that commensurates is third-person singular of commensurate while commensurated is past tense of commensurate.commensurates
English
Verb
(head)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)