commensurate

From Latin com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrō.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɛnʃəɹət/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈmɛnʃəɹət/

commensurate (comparative more commensurate, superlative most commensurate)

1. Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
   • 1962, Senator Mike Mansfield, "Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam"

     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.

2. (physics) Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position

• incommensurate
• discommensurate

commensurate (third-person singular simple present commensurates, present participle commensurating, simple past and past participle commensurated)

1. To reduce to a common measure.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

2. To proportionate; to adjust.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of T. Puller to this entry?)

• “commensurate” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• commensurate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• commensurate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• commensurate at OneLook Dictionary Search

commensurate

1. second-person plural present indicative of commensurare
2. second-person plural imperative of commensurare
3. feminine plural of commensurato