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Definition of Incommensurate
1. Adjective. Not corresponding in size or degree or extent. "A reward incommensurate with his effort"
Definition of Incommensurate
1. a. Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.
Definition of Incommensurate
1. Adjective. Out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else ¹
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Definition of Incommensurate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incommensurate
Literary usage of Incommensurate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our City Schools, Their Direction and Management by William Estabrook Chancellor (1908)
"... property and education in this age of the surplus are incommensurate with men
and women.1 In ages and lands when taking property from the strong to save ..."
2. The Logic of Science: A Translation of the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1850)
"Though the correlative of sense is generic, the correlative of sensation is
particular, determinate in time and place, and incommensurate : the demonstrable ..."
3. Two Spheres; Or, Mind Versus Instinct by W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. (1894)
"incommensurate with Mind. Man is a special and separate creation. ... Man possesses
Mind — the Universal Sphere; and these two are incommensurate. ..."
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