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in commensurable

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in⋅com⋅men⋅su⋅ra⋅ble

  [in-kuh-men-ser-uh-buhl, -sher-]
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–adjective
1. not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
2. utterly disproportionate.
3. Mathematics. (of two or more quantities) having no common measure.
–noun
4. something that is incommensurable.
5. Mathematics. one of two or more incommensurable quantities.
Origin:
1550–60; < LL incommēnsūrābilis. See in- 3 , commensurable

Related forms:
in⋅com⋅men⋅su⋅ra⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, in⋅com⋅men⋅su⋅ra⋅ble⋅ness, noun
in⋅com⋅men⋅su⋅ra⋅bly, adverb
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Word Origin & History

incommensurable 
1557, from M.L. incommensurabilis, from in- "not" + L.L. commensurabilis, from L. com- "with" + mensurabilis "measurable," from mensurare "to measure."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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