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Common measure   /kˈɑmən mˈɛʒər/   Listen
Common measure

noun
1.
A time signature indicating four beats to the bar.  Synonyms: common time, four-four time, quadruple time.
2.
An integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly.  Synonyms: common divisor, common factor.
3.
The usual (iambic) meter of a ballad.  Synonym: common meter.






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"Common measure" Quotes from Famous Books



... of rapture at the spectacle afforded to him by his fellow-creatures; above all it is hard, when such a man is placed as Marcus Aurelius was placed, and has had the meanness and perversity of his fellow-creatures thrust, in no common measure, upon his notice,—has had, time after time, to experience how "within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape." His true strain of thought as to his relations with his fellow-men is rather ...
— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... least doubt of the rectitude of their own individual creed, that there can be no proportion between these idols and mortals, who are the work of their hands; that it is not permitted to the clay to demand of the potter who has formed it, "why ye have fashioned me thus;"—but if there can be no common measure between the workman and his work—if there can be no analogy between them, because the one is immaterial, the other corporeal, How do they reciprocally act upon each other? How can the gross organs of the one, comprehend ...
— The System of Nature, Vol. 2 • Baron D'Holbach

... recall them from his periods of intemperance. But these comparisons, I warn him, are fallacious, when made in this way; the two states are incommensurable on any plan of direct comparison. Some common measure must be found, and, out of himself; some positive fact, that will not bend to his own delusive feeling at the moment; as, for instance, in what degree he finds tolerable what heretofore was not so—the effort of writing letters, or transacting business, or undertaking a journey, ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey



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