commensurate
IPA: kʌmˈɛnsɝʌt
verb
- To reduce to a common measure.
- To proportionate; to adjust.
adjective
- Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
- (physics) Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
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Examples of "commensurate" in Sentences
- I kept silence from utter inability to say a word commensurate with my grief.
- If someone like Justice Souter said something “equivalent,” or commensurate, which is to say make an aside comment in an informal setting
- Based on the implied yield available on zero-coupon government issues with an equivalent term commensurate with the expected term of the awards.
- IRS, and a proposal was put forth to possibly transfer her to contract status at the same compensation rate, with a designation commensurate with her status and contributions to the organization.
- Additionally, members can qualify to serve with the Expectation of Continued Employment after their sixth consecutive year of employment pending a performance review but will "normally be reappointed with a term commensurate with the term just completed," according to University policy.
- We are of course at war and so, given how serious the Government says matters are (such that they justify these new inroads into our freedoms), then perhaps we ought to treat the funding of our military in commensurate manner, foregoing some of the luxuries to which we have become accustomed.
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