commensurability
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- (commensurable) capable of being measured by a common standard; "hours and minutes are commensurable"
- In astronomy, two orbiting objects such as planets, satellites or asteroids are said to exhibit commensurability if their orbital periods are in rational proportion (see also commensurability (mathematics)).
- In ethics, two values (or norms, reasons, or goods) are incommensurable when they do not share a common standard of measurement.
- In mathematics, two non-zero real numbers a and b are said to be commensurable iff a/b is a rational number.
- Commensurability or incommensurability is a concept in the philosophy of science. Scientific theories are described as commensurable if one can compare them to determine which is more accurate; if theories are incommensurable, there is no way in which one can compare them to each other in order ...
- Capacity of a grazing permittee’s base ranch property to support permitted livestock during the period such livestock are off public land.