Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being measured.
- adjective Having fixed rhythm and measure, as in music; mensural.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being measured; measurable.
- In music, noting that style of music which succeeded the earliest plain-song, and was distinguished from it by such a. combination of simultaneous but independent voice-parts that a system of rhythm was necessitated to avoid confusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being measured; measurable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
measurable - adjective music Having a fixed
rhythm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being measured
- adjective having notes of fixed rhythmic value
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Examples
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El discurso científico garantizaba la posibilidad de generar un conocimiento fiable, ya que se había producido de manera mensurable (o sea que era producto de un montón de mediciones) y verificado (lo que pasaba en un lugar del planeta, como por ejemplo tirar una manzana al piso, ocurría también en cualquier otro sitio).
Si la forma es el fondo, ��entonces el relato es la historia? 2009
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Among the great innovations in music of the 14th c. belongs the “musica mensurabilis”, “mensurable music” which was invented “out of the blue” at the end of the 13th c. and was defintively transformed during the second decade of the 14th.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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There is, however, something quite different that is often meant when it is said that pleasures are incom - mensurable.
UTILITARIANISM D. H. MONRO 1968
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The two kinds of pain, then, are not wholly incom - mensurable.
UTILITARIANISM D. H. MONRO 1968
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If dancing is to be viewed as dependent upon its correspondence with mensurable music, it must date simply from the invention of the Cantus Mensurabilis, attributed by some writers to
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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Every object, therefore, of which quantity, in the mathematical sense, is predicable, must be by its essential nature _mensurable.
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Again, every line is extension in one dimension; hence a mathematical quantity, hence mensurable, hence finite; you must therefore, deny that a line is a quantity, or else affirm that it is finite.
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(Neither can it be made mensurable, the fantasies of certain economists and EUrocrats notwithstanding.
Eternity Road The Curmudgeon Emeritus 2010
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