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Example sentences for "common measure"

  • Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

  • One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.

  • The fact that goods can be priced in terms of money, can have a common measure of value, makes barter itself easier, as I have shown in my chapter on "Barter" in Part II.

  • It is greatly facilitated by the "common measure of values" function of money.

  • The feature of the money economy which has thus refined and improved barter is the standard of value (common measure of value) function of money.

  • Taking into our view all money transactions, great and small, I question if a common measure of more convenient size than the Dollar could be proposed.

  • As a money of account, this will be laborious, even when facilitated by the aid of decimal arithmetic: as a common measure of the value of property, it will be too minute to be comprehended by the people.

  • He proposed for that unit, such a fraction of pure silver as would be a common measure of the penny of every state, without leaving a fraction.

  • There is no meanness in requiring that the smallest vessels should have a common measure; for the divisions of number are useful in measuring height and depth, as well as sounds and motions, upwards or downwards, or round and round.

  • He proposed for that Unit, such a fraction of pure silver as would be a common measure of the penny of every State, without leaving a fraction.

  • Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.

  • The conclusions vary with the particular writer, for each writes from his own point of view and with his own principles, and these admit of no common measure.

  • If it is kept for some time before boiling it, place the bunch in about half an inch deep of cold water, the top upward, and keep in a cool place.

  • Other vegetables that are neither green nor dry, such as carrots, turnips, etc.

  • The asparagus is not dropped in cold water.

  • Defn: One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common bird; common centre; common currency; common denominator; common discourse; common impulse; common measure; common object; common plant; common progenitor; common right; common saying; common sight; common soldier; common stock; common summer; common term; common with; commonly believed; commonly called; commonly supposed; fourth part; make use; miserable condition; more then; serious accident