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Incommensurate

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

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Disproportionate 84% connected

Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body n…

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Disproportionate 84% connected

Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body n…

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Incommensurable 84% connected

Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is…

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Incommensurable 84% connected

Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is…

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Unequal 66% connected

Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers…

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Unequal 66% connected

Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers…

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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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Answerable adjective · 78% connection

Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.

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Asymmetral adjective · 78% connection

Incommensurable; also, unsymmetrical.

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Asymmetrical adjective · 78% connection

Incommensurable.

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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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Commeasurable adjective · 78% connection

Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional.

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Commeasure verb · 78% connection

To be commensurate with; to equal.

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Commensurable adjective · 78% connection

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

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Commensurated imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Commensurate

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Commensurately adverb · 78% connection

In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.

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Commensurateness noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being commensurate.

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Commensurating p. pr. & vb. n. · 78% connection

of Commensurate

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Commensuration noun · 78% connection

The act of commensurating; the state of being commensurate.

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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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Equivalent adjective · 78% connection

Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.

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