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Meaning of "commensuration" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF COMMENSURATION

kəˌmɛnsəˈreɪʃən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMENSURATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Commensuration is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMMENSURATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of commensuration in the English dictionary

The definition of commensuration in the dictionary is a means for comparing the value of disparate things; the comparison of different entities according to a common metric.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMMENSURATION

acceleration · collaboration · configuration · consideration · cooperation · corporation · declaration · decoration · deliberation · duration · expiration · exploration · federation · generation · incorporation · inspiration · operation · preparation · restoration · separation

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMMENSURATION

commensal · commensalism · commensality · commensally · commensurability · commensurable · commensurably · commensurate · commensurately · commensurateness · comment · commentarial · commentariat · commentaries · commentary · commentary box · commentate · commentation · commentator · commentatorial

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMMENSURATION

accreditation · action · administration · animation · application · association · certification · citation · combination · communication · confirmation · conversation · creation · destination · documentation · education · evaluation · excitation · formation · foundation · hesitation

Synonyms and antonyms of commensuration in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «commensuration» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMMENSURATION

Find out the translation of commensuration to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of commensuration from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «commensuration» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

commensuration
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

conmensuración
570 millions of speakers
en

English

commensuration
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

commensuration
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

commensuration
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

соизмерение
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

comensuração
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

commensuration
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

commensuration
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Persetujuan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

commensuration
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

commensuration
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

commensuration
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Commensuration
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

commensuration
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

commensuration
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कमोडिटी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

commensuration
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

commisurazione
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

commensuration
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

соизмерение
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

comensurarea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

commensuration
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

saammeetbaarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

commensuration
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

commensuration
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of commensuration

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMENSURATION»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of commensuration
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «commensuration».

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMENSURATION»

Discover the use of commensuration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to commensuration and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Incommensurability and Commensuration: The Common Denominator
This book presents the first detailed examination of incommensurability in the value-theoretical sense.
Fred D'Agostino, 2003
2
The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity ...
After describing what commensuration entails, I will explain why I think this is such a provocative and important assumption. Defining Commensuration Commensuration is concerned with measuring different properties normally represented by ...
Wendy Nelson Espeland, 1998
3
Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition
Commensurative Work All commensuration takes work. How much work depends on just what is being commensurated, the scope of the commensurative task, people's investments in commensuration, and whether or not commensuration is  ...
Karen A. Cerulo, 2002
4
Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: ...
examples of commensuration, especially if institutionalized, all three dimensions will be present to varying degrees. Sorting out their relative significance is an important empirical task. In markets, commensuration is the process by which value ...
Andrew J. Hoffman, Marc J. Ventresca, 2002
5
Cultural Studies in the Future Tense
Or, in other words, it seems that the universal standard is an impossibility.51 Povinelli (2001, 320) gets at this dialectical or reductionist notion of com- mensuration, although I do not agree with her equation of commensuration with ( linguistic) ...
Lawrence Grossberg, 2010
6
Governance by Indicators: Global Power Through ...
examples of commensuration in which value, ability or knowledge, opinions, and political preferences are turned into numbers. Rankings—whether of students, the risk of doing business in a particular country, the environmental record of ...
Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, Sally Engle Merry, 2012
7
Professionals Making Judgments: The Professional Skill of ...
Valuation and commensuration are two complementary processes not fully separated in time and space, but for analytical reasons they can be kept apart. Commensuration In many cases, economic valuation is not the goal per se, but the ...
Alexander Styhre, 2013
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Governance by Indicators: Global Power through ...
examples of commensuration in which value, ability or knowledge, opinions, and political preferences are turned into numbers. Rankings—whether of students, the risk of doing business in a particular country, the environmental record of ...
Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury, 2012
9
Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
Let us sharpen this point on the hard surface of social reality: It will be easy enough to acknowledge that “races,” for example, are incommensurable, because the discourse of their commensuration is called “racism.” But it has been rather more ...
John Guillory, 2013
10
Permutation Methods: A Distance Function Approach
Simulated power comparisons for location shifts of five uncorrelated bivariate distributions (Mielke and Berry, 1994) indicate that (1) MRPP with Euclidean commensuration, Hotelling commensuration and v = 1, and Hotelling commensuration ...
Paul W. Mielke, Kenneth J. Berry, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMENSURATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term commensuration is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Work of Art
... is no standard process of commensuration in place between artists and organizations, it automatically falls on the artist to demand payment. «East Bay Express, May 15»
2
BreakingNews 4/3/15 - Tinubu's Alleged Illicit Properties: Beyond …
... and that his present incomes and properties (if any) are in commensuration with pieces of information contained in his asset declaration form ... «Nigeria Master Web, Mar 15»
3
Soon Property cards records with map to be available online in Gujarat
Available records also, to some extent, have no commensuration with the ground realities. © Copyright DeshGujarat. All rights reserved. «DeshGujarat, Feb 15»
4
'Have Lemon Laws for purchases gone sour'
“Among the complaints we received included consumers who could not obtain commensuration compensation after buying faulty items, not ... «The Rakyat Post, Oct 14»
5
Rethink required to improve higher education: UGC chief
... the efforts and resources are not in commensuration. The Government of India is in the process of preparing a legislation to capture the more ... «Business Standard, Aug 14»
6
Selling ethically or selling the ethics?
The premium amount then is derived automatically, thereby ensuring that the amount is charged in commensuration of the risk and is devoid of ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Aug 14»
7
Nigerians condemn cancellation of FEC meeting for VP Sambo's …
In that occasion I was dumbfounded when I saw the president in a televised commensuration visit using a microphone. It was a heartless ... «Premium Times, May 14»
8
Komla Dumor's death is a great loss – Akwasi Sarpong
Akwasi Sarpong, who described today as a “painful time”, expressed his deepest commensuration to the Dumor family. Comments: This article ... «GhanaWeb, Feb 14»
9
The Grammys Don't Understand Hip-Hop Music
The expectation of commensuration is where we must focus our attention. Some of the greatest hip-hop artists to have ever lived have never ... «UPTOWN Magazine, Jan 14»
10
Local Government Bill passed by Sindh Assembly
Reader Comments. Bravo PPP and commensuration to MQM nisar. France. Post Your Comments (1). Please provide your Comments Please ... «The News International, Aug 13»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Commensuration [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/commensuration>. May 2024 ».
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