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comparative more commensurate, superlative most commensurate
Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard. quotations examples
If it is essential in our interests to maintain a quasi-permanent position of power on the Asian mainland as against the Chinese then we must be prepared to continue to pay the present cost in Vietnam indefinitely and to meet any escalation on the other side with at least a commensurate escalation of commitment of our own.
1962, Senator Mike Mansfield, Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam
Kettering will become an important interchange for passengers making these journeys, and EMR is considering improvements to the station's facilities commensurate with this status.
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 54
(physics) Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position examples
third-person singular simple present commensurates, present participle commensurating, simple past and past participle commensurated
To reduce to a common measure. quotations examples
For that division is not naturally founded, but artificially set down, and by agreement, as the aptest terms to define or commensurate the longitude of places.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]
To proportionate; to adjust. quotations examples
The rare temper and proportion, which the Church of England useth in commensurating the Forms of Absolution to the degrees of preparation and necessity, is to be observed
1679, Timothy Puller, The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted