Meaning & use
Commensurable
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Able to be measured or judged by the same standard; comparable in a meaningful way.
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The two economic models aren't really commensurable, since they define "growth" so differently.
Philosophers have long debated whether happiness and duty are commensurable values.
A note on using this word
In mathematics, two quantities are "commensurable" if their ratio is a rational number; the word later broadened to describe any two things measurable on a common scale.
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