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Definition of Fundamental measure

1. Noun. One of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fundamental Measure

Literary usage of Fundamental measure

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

1. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"Now the proper unchangeable fundamental measure of nature is its ... But since this fundamental measure is a self-contradictory concept (on. account of the ..."

2. Principles of Chemical Philosophy by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1885)
"In these cases, however, we endeavor to refer the molecular weight indirectly to the fundamental measure, by establishing a relation of chemical equivalency ..."

3. General Physics: An Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by William Suddards Franklin, Barry MacNutt (1916)
"As yet we have not agreed upon any fundamental measure of temperature. ... A fundamental measure of temperature must be independent of the peculiar ..."

4. Space and Geometry in the Light of Physiological, Psychological and Physical by Ernst Mach (1906)
"... all of whose points can be translated by congruent curved or straight paths into points of the first straight line.1 LENGTH AS THE fundamental measure. ..."

5. The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events (1863)
"The student of mechanics well knows that having the measures of space and time, no specific fundamental measure of velocity is required ; since we find or ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"... merely the relative proportions of the different measures but the fundamental measure remained the same in the adoption of the system by the Hebrews. ..."

7. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"Now the proper unchangeable fundamental measure of nature is its ... But since this fundamental measure is a self-contradictory concept (on. account of the ..."

8. Principles of Chemical Philosophy by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1885)
"In these cases, however, we endeavor to refer the molecular weight indirectly to the fundamental measure, by establishing a relation of chemical equivalency ..."

9. General Physics: An Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by William Suddards Franklin, Barry MacNutt (1916)
"As yet we have not agreed upon any fundamental measure of temperature. ... A fundamental measure of temperature must be independent of the peculiar ..."

10. Space and Geometry in the Light of Physiological, Psychological and Physical by Ernst Mach (1906)
"... all of whose points can be translated by congruent curved or straight paths into points of the first straight line.1 LENGTH AS THE fundamental measure. ..."

11. The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events (1863)
"The student of mechanics well knows that having the measures of space and time, no specific fundamental measure of velocity is required ; since we find or ..."

12. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"... merely the relative proportions of the different measures but the fundamental measure remained the same in the adoption of the system by the Hebrews. ..."

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