What's the difference between immeasurable and incommensurable?

Immeasurable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapble of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the iv-dosed pony, 14C became immeasurable in plasma within 12 h after dosing and appeared in bile within 30 min, with maximum biliary concentration occurring at about 1 h. Monensin accounted for a minimum of 19% of the 14C in a 56- to 72-h sample of feces for one orally-dosed pony and a minimum of 25% of the 14C in feces from the same time period for the other.
  • (2) The inherent noise of the pressure transducer was found to be approximately 0.2 mm Hg, while the noise of the piezoelectric transducer was immeasurably low.
  • (3) When Jv was zero, the collectate-to-perfusate ratios of FITC-Dx (RDX) and 125I-albumin (Ralb) in the DVR and AVR were identical implying that diffusive efflux of albumin was immeasurably small.
  • (4) "An invalid agency decision to suspend drilling of wells in depths of over 500 feet simply cannot justify the immeasurable effect on the plaintiffs, the local economy, the Gulf region, and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country," Feldman said in his ruling, according to the Associated Press news agency.
  • (5) The approach presented is based upon a statistical power calculation technique, a knowledge of the variability associated with the methods to be compared and the criteria for equivalence (the limits within which differences become immeasurable or, for practical purposes, insignificant).
  • (6) As pluralistic as our society may be, and no matter how relevant cultural and subcultural values may be, it is an incontrovertible fact that, by exceedingly early childbearing, poor teenagers who are black immeasurably increase their inherent disadvantages to pursue education and acquire marketable skills, not to mention attractive jobs.
  • (7) An anti-marriage equality booklet published by the Catholic church could cause “immeasurable harm” and should be investigated by Tasmania’s anti-discrimination commissioner, a marriage equality advocate says.
  • (8) The ancillary disciplines of neuroradiology and neuroanesthesia have aided the surgeon immeasurably in the planning of his operation, but the final results still depend basically on the surgeon's ability and judgment in that difficult decision "should I go for broke or stop?"
  • (9) The qualities of charcter that made him such an outstanding leader affected all who worked with him and helped immeasurably in the further evolution of surgery into a productive and valuable discipline.
  • (10) GABA produced a large fall in cell input resistance, frequently to immeasurable levels.
  • (11) She even made her party's policy on immigration sound immeasurably more populist and clearer than Labour's – though it is now the same as the government's view.
  • (12) Even two years on, the pain we feel is still immeasurable,” she said.
  • (13) But clearly results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.
  • (14) Calculations of unitary currents at 2 mM Ca indicated that the single-channel currents would be immeasurably small (i.e., < 0.1 pA).
  • (15) Each operation contributes immeasurably to the comfort and survival of patients with terminal renal failure, and each must be performed with careful attention to detail.
  • (16) The receptor association rate constant (9.6 X 10(2) M-1 s-1) is extremely low although the dissociation rate constant was immeasurable.
  • (17) Wakefield, the obscure medical fraudster, is esteemed by a Hollywood star of such immeasurable stature and influence that great US Democrats prostrate themselves for his approval.
  • (18) 11.00pm BST "Alan Shearer's authority has, in the eyes of all right-thinking people, gone up immeasurably after being subject to the candid assessment of Joe Eff Cee Kinnear," writes Charles Antaki.
  • (19) Through such collaboration, the academician gains immeasurably by being able to study common clinical problems in primary care settings, where they are encountered most often.
  • (20) Meanwhile – and I accept that this may be hard for readers to take – liberals ought to realise that the inability of the state to deport Islamist preachers and foreign criminals has made life immeasurably harder for refugees who threaten no one.

Incommensurable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.
  • (n.) One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.

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.