What's the difference between commensurate and incommensurate?
Commensurate
Definition:
(v. t.) To reduce to a common measure.
(v. t.) To proportionate; to adjust.
(a.) Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
(a.) Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(2) Human urine or male mouse plasma could substitute for purified EGF, yielding growth commensurate with the levels of EGF in these biological fluids previously measured by others using radioreceptor and radioimmune assays.
(3) The use of a reasonably sensitive and specific case definition commensurate with available diagnostic resources should facilitate AIDS surveillance in developing countries.
(4) The average mitochondrial volume is increased fourfold in the peripheral and midzonal regions with a commensurate decrease in the number of mitochondria per cell.
(5) Poor readers did not resemble younger children in their awareness of variables that affect memory but exhibited knowledge commensurate with that of good readers in the same grade.
(6) The specific activity of BLM hydrolase was 70% higher in the resistant subline, commensurate with a 50% increase in protein content in these cells.
(7) In all groups, plasma NE, CDI, and NE pressor dose were reduced in parallel (by 35 to 75%; P less than 0.05 to less than 0.001), and the relation between stepwise increasing plasma NE and BP changes during NE infusion was commensurably displaced to the left (P less than 0.01).
(8) Public transport costs have risen commensurately with fuel prices, while traders are preparing for price hikes across the board.
(9) The PTPases identified exhibit high affinities for substrates and high activities in cells, which is commensurate with the PTPases being important in vivo in controlling or reversing autophosphorylation-induced regulatory or signalling events.
(10) The left ventricular weight to systolic blood pressure ratio was equivalent in all three groups, so that the reduction of left ventricular mass in diltiazem-treated rats was commensurate with the reduction of blood pressure.
(11) The net alanine formation in ischemia was approximately a stoichiometric glutamate decrease; the increase in the tissue malate content corresponded to the aspartate----oxaloacetate----malate anaplerotic flux, the succinate production being commensurable to alpha-ketoglutaric acid formation in the alanine aminotransferase reaction.
(12) Meanwhile, new recruits to the workforce were told they had to get a degree – and a shedload of debt – to get ahead, only to come out and find there weren't the commensurate jobs for them.
(13) The probable role of the precentral and postcentral insular areas and their related paths to the contraction of the muscles (sometimes called the agonists) on the side of an extremity in the direction of movement of that extremity and the commensurate relaxation of the muscles (sometimes called the antagonists) cooperating with them on the other side of the extremity is discussed.
(14) The report acknowledges these communities' concerns about a midwifery project, notes problems in determining accurate perinatal data for these locales, and indicates the need for comprehensive maternal-child care which is commensurate with these peoples' customs and beliefs.
(15) The P100 latency in both CBVEP and GVEP was prolonged before L-dopa therapy, usually commensurate with the degree of motor disability.
(16) After a 72-h preincubation, IGF-I cell binding remained increased 2-fold with commensurate enhancement of IGF-I-stimulated [3H]AIB uptake.
(17) Gel filtration of pairs of PS and LS from four individuals revealed IgM, IgA, and IgG to elute in positions commensurate with pentameric IgM, secretory IgA, and monomeric IgG.
(18) Statistical analysis with the use of several statistical techniques for between- and within-drug group comparisons revealed that pimozide and fluphenazine were equally effective in maintaining control of symptomatology of chronic schizophrenics at a level commensurate with or better than that provided by their previous medication.
(19) The presence of branching with or without a commensurate increase in the polarity of the 5(6)-substituent adjacent to the benzimidazole ring (alpha-position) resulted in a loss of activity.
(20) Drug prescriptions per capita in the United States have more than doubled since 1950 without a commensurate improvement in health.
Incommensurate
Definition:
(a.) Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.
(a.) Not of equal of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aristotle's theory of vision has been characterized as naive, incommensurate with his theory of audition, and of historical interest only.
(2) In the first half of 2011, humanitarian aid to Somalia was incommensurate with the country's needs.
(3) By offering market competition to achieve allocational efficiency and vouchers and tax credits to achieve distributional equity, pro-competition reforms appear to satisfy what many believed were incommensurable goals.
(4) By the time I was at university and studying politics myself, I certainly understood there was a major problem with being a socialist: namely, the incommensurability of the means available and the ends desired.
(5) We will try to illustrate here that, simply from the geometry of the electron diffraction pattern of an incommensurably modulated structure, conclusive information can be obtained on the real space shape of this modulation.
(6) Therefore, one DPPA headgroup interacts with more than one lysine residue electrostatically, i.e., the electric charge distributions in both the surface of a DPPA bilayer and the poly(L-lysine) beta-sheet are incommensurate.
(7) However, we can find in Alcmaion and the hippocratic writings de vetere medicina, de natura hominis and de victu the differentiation between an arithmetical determinable measure and a qualitative determinable measure which is defined by a common lógos for incommensurable sizes.
(8) In an interview late in life, Aldous Huxley remarked: "We are multiple amphibians living in many different – even in some senses incommensurable – universes at the same time, and ... our business in life is somehow to make the best of all the worlds we live in."
(9) Yet it’s unclear to me – as I imagine it may be to you – how these qualities can be said to inhere in any given individual solely by an accident of birth; “Britishness” and “patriotism” are incommensurable without a peculiar sort of sleight of mind, one practised by all dominant societies − or at least those who aspire to punch above their weight on the international stage.
(10) Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse reject my claim that because their views on the mortality of infanticide are metaphysically incommensurate with those of Paul Ramsey they cannot refute his position.
(11) The L beta to L alpha phase transition was shown to proceed via a second-order thermodynamic process involving incommensurate mesophase bilayer repeat structures and the formation of an intermediate rectangular acyl chain packing subcell.
(12) That is, they are incommensurate with one aspect or another of the pooled findings in the meta-analysis.
(13) Playground risks are comparatively low; accident causes are diverse and most involve long bone injuries and not head injuries as has been widely reported; and the cost of some popular risk reduction measures would seem to be incommensurate with the reasonably-anticipated risk reduction which they might afford.
(14) Ramsey and we, he holds, start from incommensurable metaphysical views: for Ramsey, the dying process has religious significance--God is calling his servant home.
(15) I argue that there is no contradiction and offer further thoughts on the metaphysically incommensurate.
(16) Each of the authors bases their interpretation on different aspects of the material, which leads to the epistemological problem named 'empirical incommensurability' by Stegmüller.
(17) In its conceptional framework this spectrum is placed on two different levels which are incommensurable to each other.
(18) The X-ray diffraction pattern recorded during contraction shows that the force generation of a muscle proceeds upon interaction of the actin and myosin heads in the incommensurate structural framework of the thin and thick filaments.
(19) The importance of incommensurately related frequency components is emphasized by proofs which do not depend on harmonic relationships.
(20) No such criterion for comparing incommensurable kinds of harm can be scientifically defined, but one is essential if occupational exposure standards are to be put into perspective.