Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of measuring or the process of being measured.
- noun A system of measuring.
- noun The dimension, quantity, or capacity determined by measuring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of measuring; mensuration.
- noun A system of measuring or measures: as, builders' measurement.
- noun An ascertained dimension; the length, breadth, thickness, depth, extent, quantity, capacity, etc., of a thing as determined or determinable by measuring; size, bulk, area, or contents.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or result of measuring; mensuration.
- noun The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
measuring . - noun Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by measurement.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
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Examples
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It treats of the measurement of surfaces, and is therefore applied in the _measurement_ of _land_.
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˜measurement™, prefer to understand (*) as a property ascription: “the system has a certain categorical property, which corresponds to the observable A having, independently of any measurement, a value in the set B”.
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Gigot: And that means, I think, from what I 've heard you say in the past, that teacher measurement is absolutely crucial.
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John Ziesel, a San Diego-based neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, meanwhile, is researching what he refers to as measurement-based design, which shows how spaces can shape our behavior.
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"This measurement is a very important step towards the goal of really understanding how tunnelling happens," Krausz told New Scientist.
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I do think though that the measurement is a little unfair to extrapolate much more than that.
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But with respect to getting our troops out, the measurement is the stability of Iraq.
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But with respect to getting our troops out, the measurement is the stability of Iraq.
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But with respect to getting our troops out, the measurement is the stability of Iraq.
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But with respect to getting our troops out, the measurement is the stability of Iraq.
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