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(-mĕzh'ur-), a. [Lat. com, for con, and Eng. measurable, q. v.] Having the same measure, or reducible to the same measure; commensurate.
She being now removed by death, a commensurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done. Walton.
a. [Fr. commensurable, from Lat. com, for con, and mensurare, to measure, from mensura, measure, from metiri, mensus, to measure.] Having a common measure; capable of being measured by the same number or quantity.
Commensurable numbers, or quantities (Math.), those which can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and a yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches. Math. Dict.