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Capable of being measured; measurable.

The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.

ctly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. Commensurable numbers or quantities (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches.…

Immeasurable. What an immensurable space is the firmament. Derham.

Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable. They are q…

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

Incommensurable; also, unsymmetrical. [Obs.] D. H. More.

Incommensurable. [Obs.]

Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.

Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.

Incapble of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast. Of depth immeasurable. Milton.

The quality of being immensurable.

The quality or state of being incommensurable. Reid.

Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable.

The quality of being mensurable.

Any number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio. The term also includes any imaginary expression like m + nsq. root-1, where m and n are real numerics.

Commensurable; symmetrical. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Having a common measure; commensurable.