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单词 mensurable
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Definition of mensurable in English:

mensurable

adjective ˈmɛnʃ(ə)rəb(ə)lˈmɛnsjərəb(ə)l
  • 1Able to be measured; having fixed limits.

    可测量的,可计量的;有固定范围的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A detection device for sensing the passage of a discrete body through a cely fitting pipe comprises a constriction which, by interaction with the moving body, produces a change in a mensurable parameter in the region of the constriction, which change is sensed by a suitable detector.
    • t follows, that the quantity of a force is its effect, as mensurable by time and space.
    1. 1.1Music
      another term for mensural
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Now in our day new and more recent authors have appeared, who write on mensurable music with little reverence for their ancestors.
      • The signs denoting the rests in mensurable music have been adopted into the modern system without modification.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'moderate'): from late Latin mensurabilis, from mensurare 'to measure', from Latin mensura 'measure'.

Definition of mensurable in US English:

mensurable

adjective
  • 1Able to be measured; having fixed limits.

    可测量的,可计量的;有固定范围的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A detection device for sensing the passage of a discrete body through a cely fitting pipe comprises a constriction which, by interaction with the moving body, produces a change in a mensurable parameter in the region of the constriction, which change is sensed by a suitable detector.
    • t follows, that the quantity of a force is its effect, as mensurable by time and space.
    1. 1.1Music
      another term for mensural
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The signs denoting the rests in mensurable music have been adopted into the modern system without modification.
      • Now in our day new and more recent authors have appeared, who write on mensurable music with little reverence for their ancestors.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘moderate’): from late Latin mensurabilis, from mensurare ‘to measure’, from Latin mensura ‘measure’.

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