Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not commensurate; disproportionate.
- adjective Inadequate.
- adjective Incommensurable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure.
- Not of equal measure or extent; not adequate: as, means incommensurate to our wants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.
- adjective Not of equal of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Out of
proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not corresponding in size or degree or extent
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Examples
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As Empedocles said that 'where heads of many a creature sprouted without necks' they afterwards by Love's power were combined, so here too objects of thought which were given separate are combined, e.g. 'incommensurate' and 'diagonal': if the combination be of objects past or future the combination of thought includes in its content the date.
ON THE SOUL Aristotle 1935
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My thinking is now that horded money does indeed spoil if it is not used to do what money is supposed to do, which is act as a means/medium of exchange to distribute otherwise incompatible or incommensurate use values.
Matthew Yglesias » Accounting Identities and Straussian Economics 2009
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Deportation is a secondary, and wholly incommensurate, punishment.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons The Media Consortium 2010
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Deportation is a secondary, and wholly incommensurate, punishment.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons The Media Consortium 2010
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Indeed, if they have thought about it all, they believe that mixing such fundamentally incommensurate activities is to commit a basic logical fallacy, with potentially serious results.
Berlinski's Wisdom 2010
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I know the expectations from social workers are unrealistic, and the pay is absolutely incommensurate with the demands of the job.
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How interesting it would be to learn about the schedule the miners lived by that combined what in our polarized culture seems so incommensurate -- twice-daily talk with psychologists, group therapy, and twice-daily prayer sessions.
Rabbi Irwin Kula: The Chilean Miners and Reality TV Rabbi Irwin Kula 2010
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Poor soul, here for so little, cast among so many hardships, filled with desires so incommensurate and so inconsistent; savagely surrounded, savagely descended, irremediably condemned to prey upon his fellow-lives.
CHAPTER 21 2010
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If it is possible to speak, grosso modo, of a progressive paradigm and a conservative one, then we are forced to realize that they are simply incommensurate.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Indeed, if they have thought about it all, they believe that mixing such fundamentally incommensurate activities is to commit a basic logical fallacy, with potentially serious results.
Berlinski's Wisdom 2010
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