commensurate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   corresponding in size or degree or extent

   pay should be commensurate with the time worked

2. 2
   adj

   Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

   commensurate punishments

3. 3
   adj

   Describing two numbers within the same Archimedean class, so that neither is infinitely larger than the other.

   Crucially, every positive surreal number is commensurate with exactly one ω-power, in the following sense.

4. 4
   verb

   To reduce to a common measure.

   For that division is not naturally founded, but artificially set down, and by agreement, as the aptest terms to define or commensurate the longitude of places.

5. 5
   verb

   To proportionate; to adjust.

   The rare temper and proportion, which the Church of England useth in commensurating the Forms of Absolution to the degrees of preparation and necessity, is to be observed

6. 6
   adj

   Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position

Etymology

First attested in 1641; borrowed from Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrātus, perfect passive participle of mēnsūrō (“to measure, to estimate”), (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin mēnsūra (“measure”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).