Definition of System of measurement

1. Noun. A system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic.


Lexicographical Neighbors of System Of Measurement

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syssarcosis
syssitia
syssitias
systaltic
system
system administrator
system architecture
system architectures
system call
system clock
system command
system error
system of logic
system of macrophages
system of measurement (current term)
system of numeration
system of rules
system of weights
system of weights and measures
system program
system pull
system software
systema alimentarium
systema digestorium
systema lymphaticum
systema nervosum
systema nervosum centrale
systema nervosum periphericum
systema respiratorium

Literary usage of System of measurement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The periodicity of the angle in the ordinary system of measurement is a special ... Infinite Distances and Angles in the Generalized System of Measurement. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Infinite Distances and Angles in the Generalized System of Measurement. — We will premise a brief account of the infinite elements in the ordinary system of ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"\V(! are now in a position to inquire how the magnitude of an angle is to bo expressed in the present system of measurement. Our definition of the magnitude ..."

4. Machinery's Encyclopedia: A Work of Reference Covering Practical Mathematics by Erik Oberg, Franklin Day Jones (1917)
"In addition to the ordinary systems of measurements used for ordinary practical work, there is a third system, known as the "absolute system of measurement ..."

5. Lectures on Man: His Place in Creation, and in the History of the Earth by Karl Christoph Vogt, James Hunt (1864)
"Method of investigation.—Mixed Types.—Average Man and Stall.—Use of the French Metrical System.—Scherzer and Schwarz's System of Measurement.—Craniometry. ..."

6. A Plan for the Study of Man: With Reference to Bills to Establish a by Arthur MacDonald (1902)
"BERTILLON system of measurement. Crime is encouraged from the difficulty of distinguishing one person from another, so that habitual and professional ..."

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