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Two concepts or things are commensurable if they are measurable or comparable by a common standard. Commensurability most commonly refers to commensurability (mathematics). It may also refer to: * Commensurability (astronomy), whether two orbital periods are mathematically commensurate. * Commensurability (crystal structure), whether periodic material properties repeat over a distance that is mathematically commensurate with the length of the unit cell. *
Commensurability (economics) Commensurability in economics arises whenever there is a common measure through which the value of two entities can be compared. Commensurability has two versions: * Strong commensurability arises when it is possible to give cardinal values to ent ...
, whether economic value can always be measured by money * Commensurability (ethics), the commensurability of values in ethics * Commensurability (group theory), when two groups have a subgroup of finite index in common * Commensurability (philosophy of science) * Unit commensurability, a concept in dimensional analysis that concerns conversion of units of measurement * Apples and oranges, common idiom related to incommensurability {{disambiguation it:Incommensurabilità simple:Incommensurability sv:Inkommensurabilitet