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Definition of Mensurable
1. Adjective. Having notes of fixed rhythmic value.
2. Adjective. Capable of being measured. "Measurable depths"
Attributes: Magnitude
Antonyms: Immeasurable
Derivative terms: Measurability, Measure, Measure
Definition of Mensurable
1. a. Capable of being measured; measurable.
Definition of Mensurable
1. Adjective. measurable ¹
2. Adjective. (music) Having a fixed rhythm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mensurable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mensurable
| mensual mensurabilities mensurability mensurable (current term) mensural mensuralism mensuralist mensurate mensurated mensurates | mensurating mensuration mensurational mensurations menswear menswears ment menta |
Literary usage of Mensurable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... as it is all mensurable itself, it serves the purpose of a measurer in moral
science The following sentence contains the essence of his argument on this ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... an accident without a substance, it being plainly impossible, that nothing
should have any accidents, modifications and attributes, or be mensurable by ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"... is obviously for mensurable. METAL, s. The name given to stones used for making
a road, S. To METAL a Road, to make or repair it with stones broken down ..."
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