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Definition of Measured

1. Adjective. Having notes of fixed rhythmic value.

2. Adjective. The rhythmic arrangement of syllables.

3. Adjective. Carefully thought out in advance. "With measured irony"

4. Adjective. Unhurried and with care and dignity. "With all deliberate speed"

Definition of Measured

1. a. Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms.

Definition of Measured

1. Adjective. That has been determined by measurement. ¹

2. Adjective. Deliberate but restrained. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of poetry etc) Rhythmically written in meter; metrical. ¹

4. Verb. (past of measure) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Measured

1. measure [v] - See also: measure

Lexicographical Neighbors of Measured

measurands measure measure of central tendency measure of location measure out measure space measure spaces measure stick measure theory measure twice, cut once

measure twice and cut once measure up measure word measure words measureable measured (current term) measured intelligence measured mile measuredly measureless

measurelessness measurement measurement problem measurement ton measurement tons measurements measurer measurers measures measures of central tendency

Literary usage of Measured

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

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"A measured Training of the Color Sense' ALBERT H. MUNSELL, NORMAL ART SCHOOL, BOSTON AN color be measured? If we submit to measure what becomes of the old ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"CT~R = ^ № In whatever unit measured, В is called the resistance of the conductor. The unit of resistance can always be conceived as established by means of ..."

3. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the by American Bible Society (1870)
"11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gale, ten cubits; ... 13 He measured then the gate from th» roof of one little chamber to the roof of ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"As space and time are measured by what fills them, so, too, is the concrete filling measured by comparison with other concrete filling. ..."

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