Word Meanings - COMMENSURATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To reduce to a common measure. Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. T. Puller

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMENSURATE)

• Conterminous
• Commensurate
• adjoining
• contiguous
• abutting
• Convertible
• Identical
• commensurate
• conterminous
• equivalent
• equipollent

Related words: (words related to COMMENSURATE)

• IDENTICAL
  1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then
• ABUTTAL
  The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland. Spelman.
• CONTERMINOUS
  Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.
• CONTIGUOUS
  In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining. The two halves of the paper did not appear fully divided . . . but seemed contiguous at one of their angles. Sir I. Newton. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head.
• ADJOINANT
  Contiguous. Carew.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• EQUIVALENTLY
  In an equal manner.
• IDENTICALLY
  In an identical manner; with respect to identity. "Identically the same." Bp. Warburton. "Identically different." Ross.
• EQUIVALENT
  Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle. (more info) aequivalere to have equal power; aequus equal + valere to be strong, 1. Equal in wortir or value, force, power,
• ADJOINT
  An adjunct; a helper.
• ABUTTER
  One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.
• COMMENSURATENESS
  The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster.
• EQUIPOLLENT
  Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently. (more info) 1. Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon.
• CONVERTIBLENESS
  The state of being convertible; convertibility.
• COMMENSURATE
  1. To reduce to a common measure. Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. T. Puller
• COMMENSURATELY
  1. In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately. 2. With equal measure or extent. Goodwin.
• ADJOINING
  Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." Dryden. Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak. Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent.
• EQUIPOLLENTLY
  With equal power. Barrow.
• ADJOIN
  To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts.
• IDENTICALNESS
  The quality or state of being identical; sameness.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• INCONTIGUOUS
  Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate. Boyle. -- In`con*tig"u*ous*ly, adv.
• INCONVERTIBLENESS
  Inconvertibility.
• INTERCONVERTIBLE
  Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.