Commensurability

Also called commensurable, symmetria

The property of dimensions that can all be measured by a common unit, so that they stand in whole-number ratios; Vitruvius’s symmetria.

Rules that use the word

Commensurability. Let every part of a building be measured by the same unit and relate to the whole by simple whole-number ratios, so that one module generates all its dimensions.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Proportion and Number, The Anatomy of an Order.

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