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Commensurate

To reduce to a common measure.

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Coextensive 84% connected

Equally extensive; having equal extent; as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.

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Coextensive 84% connected

Equally extensive; having equal extent; as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive.

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Commensurable 84% connected

Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.

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Commensurable 84% connected

Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.

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Conterminous 84% connected

Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.

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Conterminous 84% connected

Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.

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Coterminous 84% connected

Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.

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Coterminous 84% connected

Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.

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Proportionate 84% connected

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.

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Proportionate 84% connected

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.

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Equal 66% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Equal 66% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Incommensurate 94% connected

Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

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Incommensurate 94% connected

Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

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Almude noun · 78% connection

A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S.…

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Alnager noun · 78% connection

A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.

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Anglemeter noun · 78% connection

An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.

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Bath noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five qu…

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Boll noun · 78% connection

A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushe…

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Char noun · 78% connection

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

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Dimension noun · 78% connection

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…

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Equate verb · 78% connection

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison;…

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Fanega noun · 78% connection

A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1/ to 2/ bushels; also, a measure of land.

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Fathom verb · 78% connection

The measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of.

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Finger noun · 78% connection

The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domesti…

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Firkin noun · 78% connection

A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.

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Gallon noun · 78% connection

A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.

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Gauge noun · 78% connection

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

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Hectolitre noun · 78% connection

A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 i…

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Hin noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure.

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Homer noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry mea…

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Kilderkin noun · 78% connection

A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.

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