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Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
Kelly Miller

Meaning of "commensurate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COMMENSURATE

From Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from Latin com- same + mēnsurāre to measure.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COMMENSURATE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMENSURATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Commensurate is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COMMENSURATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of commensurate in the English dictionary

The first definition of commensurate in the dictionary is having the same extent or duration. Other definition of commensurate is corresponding in degree, amount, or size; proportionate. Commensurate is also able to be measured by a common standard; commensurable.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMMENSURATE


accurate
ˈækjərɪt
confederate
kənˈfɛdərɪt
conglomerate
kənˈɡlɒmərɪt
considerate
kənˈsɪdərɪt
corporate
ˈkɔːpərɪt
curate
ˈkjʊərɪt
deliberate
dɪˈlɪbərɪt
desperate
ˈdɛspərɪt
directorate
dɪˈrɛktərɪt
disparate
ˈdɪspərɪt
doctorate
ˈdɒktərɪt
elaborate
ɪˈlæbərɪt
electorate
ɪˈlɛktərɪt
emirate
ɛˈmɪərɪt
favourite
ˈfeɪvərɪt
illiterate
ɪˈlɪtərɪt
literate
ˈlɪtərɪt
moderate
ˈmɒdərɪt
professorate
prəˈfɛsərɪt
temperate
ˈtɛmpərɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMMENSURATE

commendator
commendatory
commender
commensal
commensalism
commensality
commensally
commensurability
commensurable
commensurably
commensurately
commensurateness
commensuration
comment
commentarial
commentariat
commentaries
commentary
commentary box
commentate

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMMENSURATE

acculturate
at any rate
barbiturate
configurate
cyanurate
depurate
figurate
inaccurate
inaugurate
incommensurate
indurate
maturate
micturate
obdurate
oversaturate
saturate
sulphurate
supersaturate
suppurate
triturate
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Synonyms and antonyms of commensurate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COMMENSURATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «commensurate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of commensurate

Translation of «commensurate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMMENSURATE

Find out the translation of commensurate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of commensurate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «commensurate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

相称
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acorde
570 millions of speakers

English

commensurate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनुरूप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يتناسب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

соизмеримы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

comensurável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তুল্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

commensurable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sepadan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

angemessen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

相応の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비례
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sepisan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xứng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஈடான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनुरूप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

orantılı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

commisurato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

współmierne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сумірні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

proporțional
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανάλογη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eweredig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proportion
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

commensurate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of commensurate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMENSURATE»

The term «commensurate» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.692 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMENSURATE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about commensurate

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6 QUOTES WITH «COMMENSURATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word commensurate.
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Gerard Arpey
Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.
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Sylvia Earle
It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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Hu Jintao
The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.
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Alain Juppe
I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope - hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.
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Kelly Miller
Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
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Marvin Olasky
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMENSURATE»

Discover the use of commensurate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to commensurate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Linear Delay-Differential Systems with Commensurate Delays: ...
The book deals with linear time-invariant delay-differential equations with commensurated point delays in a control-theoretic context.
Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, 2002
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Intellectual Property: Fees Are Not Always Commensurate with ...
Reviews issues related to intellectual property fees charged by the Patent & Trademark Office within the Dept. of Commerce & the Copyright Office within the Library of Congress.
Allen Li, 1998
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Children's Fractional Knowledge
This transformation is essential in establishing the two fractions as commensurate. Joe's exclamation, “I've got it!” and his affirmation of Patricia's result indicates that he could similarly use his iterative fraction scheme to establish fractions ...
Leslie P. Steffe, John Olive, 2009
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Materials Interfaces: Atomic-level Structure and Properties
1.5 COMMENSURABILITY In a commensurate interface the atomic positions on both sides of the interface are long-range ordered parallel to the plane of the defect, and a common planar unit cell exists which describes the periodic (i.e. ...
D. Wolf, Sidney Yip, 1992
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Fundraising Law Made Easy
COMMENSURATE TEST A little-known, little-used standard in the federal tax law pertaining to tax- exempt, charitable organizations is termed the commensurate test. With this test, the fact-finder (the IRS or a court) assesses whether an ...
Bruce R. Hopkins, 2009
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Pathways to 'the Kingdom'
Holy Soul of Heaven, of the Second Coming), while Protestants, in passing from sensual strength and knowledge to their sensible counterparts, would be damned from the phenomenal Daughter (commensurate with Nonconformist or ' free ...
John O'Loughlin, 2011
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Fundamentals of Powder Diffraction and Structural ...
Commensurate. Modulation. Consider the simplest case, when the periodicity of the crystal lattice is perturbed in one dimension by periodic deviations of atoms from their ideal positions. As shown in Fig. 5.1, the basis structure (the upper row  ...
Vitalij Pecharsky, Peter Zavalij, 2009
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Language-Change Index commendatory misused for commendable: Stage 1 commensurate. A. And commensurable. In all but mathematical contexts, commensurable is a needless variant of commensurate. Commensurable legitimately ...
Bryan Garner, 2009
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Scanning Probe Microscopy and Spectroscopy: Methods and ...
4.4.3 CDW domains The formation of CDW domains is usually observed in cases where the CDW superlattice is not commensurate with the underlying atomic lattice. For instance, 1T-TaS2 exhibits a nearly commensurate (NC) CDW phase  ...
Roland Wiesendanger, 1994
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Special Issue on Incommensurate Phase Transitions
COMMENSURATE. TRANSITIONS. OF. (N(CH3)4)2ZnCl4. CRYSTALS. STUDIED. BY. MEANS. OF. REAL. TIME. X-RAY. SYNCHROTRON. TOPOGRAPHY. M. RIBET Groupe de Dvnamique des Phases Condensees, U.S.T.L. PlaceE.
A. R. Bishop, V. Dvorak, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMENSURATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term commensurate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Best 2015 NBA Free-Agency Landing Spots for Houston Rockets …
... reduce the amount of money it still owes the player (and lower their team salary) by a commensurate amount. This is called the right of set-off. «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
2
Kevin Garnett will return to the Minnesota Timberwolves for two …
Handing him a two-year contract at age 39 isn't exactly a gift, Garnett is one of the rare superstars that was paid commensurate for his talents ... «Yahoo Canada Sports, Jul 15»
3
China's frantic intervention to prop up stock market makes global …
However markets have a habit of not behaving rationally, both rising and falling beyond levels that are commensurate with the underlying value ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
4
Can Renault repeat its Duster-like success with Kwid?
... huge media spends, glamour and glitz but not a commensurate understanding of the local market realities, points out a senior auto-marketer. «Economic Times, Jul 15»
5
Solar power; sunny side down
... nuclear and pumped storage hydroelectric energy, alongside a commensurate cut in demand from industry including four aluminum plants. «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
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Saturn in Widescreen: The Voyager 2 Approach Movie
... and flat-fielding, in addition to the removal of the distortions and reseaux marks commensurate with Voyager's antiquated TV camera system. «The Planetary Society, Jul 15»
7
Can Donald Trump stop a Univision IPO?
... hereby demand that the company immediately establish a litigation reserve commensurate with the amount demanded . . . so that Univision ... «Page Six, Jul 15»
8
Improve management of borrowed funds
The replacement of graduated tax with local hotel tax inter alia, does not yield a commensurate amount especially for new districts. Since its ... «New Vision, Jul 15»
9
Democracy was not the winner in the Greek vote
But, in that case, the popular consultation should have been commensurate with that complexity. A careful and deliberate sounding of the will of ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
10
Is Equity Crowdfunding Turning into a Mirage?
... and Tier II offerings (up to $50 million) require ongoing reporting requirements commensurate with those imposed on a public company. «Institutional Investor, Jul 15»

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