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Definition of "mensurable" []

  • That can be measured: mensurable results in employee performance; a mensurable increase in the cost of oil. (adjective)
  • Having fixed rhythm and measure, as in music; mensural. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "mensurable" in a sentence
  • "El discurso científico garantizaba la posibilidad de generar un conocimiento fiable, ya que se había producido de manera mensurable (o sea que era producto de un montón de mediciones) y verificado (lo que pasaba en un lugar del planeta, como por ejemplo tirar una manzana al piso, ocurría también en cualquier otro sitio)."
  • "Among the great innovations in music of the 14th c. belongs the “musica mensurabilis”, “mensurable music” which was invented “out of the blue” at the end of the 13th c. and was defintively transformed during the second decade of the 14th."
  • "There is, however, something quite different that is often meant when it is said that pleasures are incom - mensurable."
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