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What (who) is incommensurable - definition
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Incommensurable; Incommensurability; Commensurable; Inconmensurable; Inconmensurability; Conmensurability; Commensurate; Commensurability (disambiguation); Incommensurate
incommensurable
adj. incommensurable with
incommensurable
a.
Without a common measure.
incommensurable
[??nk?'m?n?(?)r?b(?)l, -sj?-]
¦ adjective
1. not able to be judged or measured by the same standards; having no common standard.
2. Mathematics (of numbers) in a ratio that cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers.
¦ noun an incommensurable quantity.
Derivatives
incommensurability noun
incommensurably adverb
Wikipedia
Commensurability
Two concepts or things are commensurable if they are measurable or comparable by a common standard.
Commensurability most commonly refers to commensurability (mathematics). It may also refer to:
- Commensurability (astronomy), whether two orbital periods are mathematically commensurate.
- Commensurability (crystal structure), whether periodic material properties repeat over a distance that is mathematically commensurate with the length of the unit cell.
- Commensurability (economics), whether economic value can always be measured by money
- Commensurability (ethics), the commensurability of values in ethics
- Commensurability (group theory), when two groups have a subgroup of finite index in common
- Commensurability (philosophy of science)
- Unit commensurability, a concept in dimensional analysis that concerns conversion of units of measurement
- Apples and oranges, common idiom related to incommensurability
Examples of use of incommensurable
1. In America, even with our incommensurable memories of '/11, we still do not have an exact human vocabulary for the loss of a city – our great, iconic city, so graceful, livable, insular, self–delighted, eccentric, the one Tennessee Williams believed care forgot and that sometimes – it might seem – forgot to care.