S vs Commensurate - What's the difference?
s | commensurate |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
To reduce to a common measure.
To proportionate; to adjust.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective commensurate is
of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.As a verb commensurate is
to reduce to a common measure.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}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)
