单词 | commensurable |
例句 | Difficulties have resulted from the fact that these three periods are not commensurable; that’s a fancy way of saying that one does not divide evenly into any of the others. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z But corporate research managers must understand that the art of science starts with a tinge of intuition that is not easily commensurable with the textbook logic of managers and business administrators. Corporate culture spreads to Scandinavian institutes 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Nor is Spencer's analysis of the beginning of the process of food-seizure, adduced in support of the theory that happiness and morality are commensurable, confirmed by facts. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Although the reports are more explicit, they are still couched in general terms, and not commensurable. Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence 2012-01-28T03:00:25.603Z Now a quantitative ratio is between commensurable quantities. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z This is usually proved first for the commensurable case and then for the incommensurable one. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z His definitions hold for commensurable as well as for incommensurable quantities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z He said he could not compare any sum of money with imprisonment—they were not commensurable quantities. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z I wish to know of all your treasonable doings so as to make your punishment commensurable with your merits.” Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z Gold and milk must be, then, commensurable quantities, i.e. must have a common quality, present in each in definite quantitative degree, before comparison is possible, or a ratio can emerge. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z In the modern treatment by limits the proof is divided into two parts: first, for commensurable bases; and second, for incommensurable ones. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The analogous is not always the same as the commensurable. Iain Sinclair's struggles with the city of London 2011-07-15T09:05:01Z The possible gain is, I think, in no way commensurable with the probable risks of panic and disorder. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z In arithmetic he was the first to expound the theory of means and of proportion as applied to commensurable quantities. Archimedes Men of Science 2011-03-13T03:00:23.660Z I sent a high-handed email pointing out that "commensurately" and "commensurably" were not the same word. The misery of the detox 2011-01-19T08:00:03Z It is a little easier to start with the hexagon, however, for we are already nearer the circle, and the side and perimeter are both commensurable with the radius. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z "Abstinence" and labor have pain as a common element, and so are commensurable. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Work and money are not yet rigidly commensurable in the consciousness of the African. American World Policies That is the first compliment you have ever paid me and I am commensurably proud. The Song of the Wolf The clear-cut, luminous, conception of the world which expresses everything in terms of commensurable concepts is thoroughly Aristotelian. Naturalism And Religion Since the fraction is infinite it cannot be commensurable and therefore its value is a quadratic surd number. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Not that crimes and jests are commensurable or approximable; but they are before the same judge. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Secondly, suppose the angle of the creases commensurable with the revolution. Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc But the motives to action are, like the physical forces, commensurable. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. It may be that they can neither be demonstrated nor made mechanically commensurable, but lie in the impenetrable mystery inherent in all life. Naturalism And Religion It is obvious that every terminating continued fraction reduces to a commensurable number. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Christ's headship, and his government as Mediator, are commensurable, and of an equal extent. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Magnitudes commensurable, are those which one and the same measure doth measure: Contrariwise, Magnitudes incommensurable are those, which the same measure cannot measure. The Way To Geometry Now there can be no such unlimited succession of descending integers: consequently, it is impossible that a/b+ c/d+, etc. can have a commensurable limit. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Thus, from the fact that two brains, like that of the ape and that of the man, are very much alike, we cannot conclude that the corresponding consciousnesses are comparable or commensurable. Creative Evolution Any quantity, commensurable or incommensurable, can be expressed uniquely as a simple continued fraction, terminating in the case of a commensurable quantity, non-terminating in the case of an incommensurable quantity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" The one reduces the primitive animistic world to the lower end of its scale, the other construes it in terms of a purposive utility commensurable with that of human action. The Approach to Philosophy Therefore two magnitudes, the one a foote long, the other two foote long, are commensurable; because the magnitude of one foote doth measure them both, the first once, the second twice. The Way To Geometry The new coins are commensurable with, and in a finite ratio to, the old ones. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II He is a living truth and true life, therefore Christ is the adequate object of the soul, commensurable to all its faculties. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning These results were given by Lambert, and used by him to prove that π and π� incommensurable, and also any commensurable power of e. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Conversation, as we know, denotes an interchange of commensurable meanings. The Approach to Philosophy It is clear that if the pulleys are of commensurable diameters, and are rigidly connected — say by belting which neither stretches nor slips — the polishing tool will describe a closed curve. On Laboratory Arts The question: Are there any commensurable relations between a circle and other Geometrical figures? A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II This was a numerical theory and therefore was applicable to commensurable magnitudes only; it was no doubt somewhat on the lines of Euclid, Book VII. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield It seems to me to be equally evident that "more" implies commensurable magnitude; and that commensurability implies the existence of a common unit in the terms compared. The Moral Economy In order to make his data commensurable with the phenomena of nature, he discovers or defines bodily conditions for the subjective content which he analyzes. The Approach to Philosophy On actual service, they have ever been equally reckless, but commensurably active. Rattlin the Reefer Horace Smith's romance which bears its name, and for which Horsfield, in his History of Sussex, predicted a career commensurable with that of the Waverley novels, is now, I fear, justly forgotten. Highways and Byways in Sussex A comparison of the two poems, in those respects in which they are commensurable, will show the English poem to be wanting in certain elements of mystery that are potent in the other. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature The music of "Salome," for instance, is not even commensurable with Wilde's drama. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers In mechanical causation, which is found in Astronomy and all branches of Physics, the effects are all reducible to modes of energy, and are therefore commensurable with their causes. Logic Deductive and Inductive Almost no asteroids, as he showed, revolve at such a distance from the sun that their periods of revolution are exactly commensurable with that of Jupiter. Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries Equal or even commensurable efficiency in education can come only through a like process. Craftsmanship in Teaching The large powers conferred by it have no commensurable relation to the duties which attach to the position of neutrality. Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) Its facilities here are commensurable with its duty of placing thousands of all countries in instantaneous communication with their homes. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 The poem is kept closely concrete and strictly commensurable by the very framework of its story:— "pure crude fact, Secreted from man's life when hearts beat hard, And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since." Studies in Literature In the real world it is reasonable to suppose we deal at most with practically similar units and practically commensurable quantities. An Englishman Looks at the World Adj. numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable, commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases But the utility of things which are bought for personal consumption means the satisfaction which they yield, and this is clearly not a thing which is commensurable with money. Supply and Demand Surely any one could foresee that such action would make only for unhappiness, or for no happiness commensurable with the sacrifice. Problems of Conduct Their bulk was not in the least commensurable with their number, there were hundreds of them sometimes, for they were written on the thinnest tissue paper to be procured. The Great Salt Lake Trail My regret on this score is commensurable with the pleasures I promised myself. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 It is now understood that conceivably only in the subjective world, and in theory and the imagination, do we deal with identically similar units, and with absolutely commensurable quantities. First and Last Things And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness. War and Peace In the breast of this other are contempt, malicious amusement, conceit, vanity, pity, and joy in ostentation; these, also, exactly commensurable with his advantage. And Even Now First, the error of supposing that the three dimensions of length, breadth, and height, are really commensurable with one another. Laws For life is progress, whilst the geometrical method is commensurable only with things. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson And we make our laws and rules as though in these matters all men and women were commensurable one with another, with an equal steadfast passion and an equal constant duty.... The New Machiavelli ATHENIAN: The natures of commensurable and incommensurable quantities in their relation to one another. Laws ATHENIAN: And do not all these seem to you to be commensurable with themselves? Laws ATHENIAN: But if some things are commensurable and others wholly incommensurable, and you think that all things are commensurable, what is your position in regard to them? Laws ATHENIAN: That is to say, length is naturally commensurable with length, and breadth with breadth, and depth in like manner with depth? Laws ATHENIAN: Concerning length and breadth when compared with depth, or breadth and length when compared with one another, are not all the Hellenes agreed that these are commensurable with one another in some way? Laws |
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