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Definition of Mensurability
1. n. The quality of being mensurable.
Definition of Mensurability
1. Noun. The quality of being mensurable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mensurability
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mensurability
| mensual mensurabilities mensurability (current term) mensurable mensural mensuralism mensuralist mensurate mensurated mensurates | mensurating mensuration mensurational mensurations menswear menswears ment |
Literary usage of Mensurability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... mensurability in it ; which if it be tangible, then it is body, and fills up
a place in the world, being part of the whole mass ; but if it be ..."
2. The Esthetic Basis of Greek Art of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C. by Rhys Carpenter (1921)
"... to the traditional canons of some of these Greek architects (Hermogenes in
particular) is full of rules of perfection. He instils com- mensurability ..."
3. Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Dugald Stewart (1859)
"... to the peculiar nature of the objects about which mathematics is conversant ;
and to the opportunity which we have (in consequence of that mensurability ..."
4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The long-sought cause of the " great inequality " of Jupiter and Saturn was found
in the near approach to com- mensurability of their mean motions; ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... .mensurability ; proportion. To COMMENSURATE, (kom-meu'-su-rate) v. «.
To reduce to some common measure. COMMENSURATE, (kom-me.n'-su-rate) a. ..."
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