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Definition of Measurement
1. Noun. The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule. "His mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"
Generic synonyms: Activity
Specialized synonyms: Seismography, Quantitative Analysis, Quantitative Chemical Analysis, Actinometry, Algometry, Anemography, Anemometry, Angulation, Anthropometry, Arterial Blood Gases, Audiometry, Bathymetry, Plumbing, Calorimetry, Cephalometry, Densitometry, Dosimetry, Fetometry, Foetometry, Gravimetry, Hydrometry, Hypsography, Hypsometry, Mental Measurement, Micrometry, Observation, Pelvimetry, Photometry, Quantification, Radioactive Dating, Meter Reading, Reading, Sampling, Sounding, Sound Ranging, Scaling, Spirometry, Surveying, Telemetry, Thermometry, Thermogravimetry, Tonometry, Viscometry, Viscosimetry
Derivative terms: Measure, Measure, Measure, Measure, Measure, Measure, Measure, Mensurate
Definition of Measurement
1. n. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
Definition of Measurement
1. Noun. The act of measuring. ¹
2. Noun. Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by measurement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Measurement
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Measurement
1. Determination of a dimension or quantity. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Measurement
Literary usage of Measurement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phi Delta Kappan by Phi Delta Kappa (1912)
"measurement of Mental Phenomena SCIENCE, it has been said with pardonable
exaggeration, is measurement. "When you can measure what you are speaking about ..."
2. Technical Digest edited by G. W. Day, D. L. Franzen, P. A. Williams (1999)
"measurement of Skew in GI MM optical ribbon fibers Masateru Tadakuma Osamu Aso
... We could achieve the measurement standard deviation within 7ps for a 100m ..."
3. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1909)
"Transformers measurement Transformers, The Design of Small Transformers for Metallic
... 92474 D. The measurement of Dielectric Resistances by Means of the ..."
4. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"THE measurement OF EFFICIENCY Consider now some common cases of the exact
description —that is, the measurement—of the condition and changes in condition of ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It so appears that in the generic concept of measurement in hand ... The periodicity
of the angle in the ordinary system of measurement is a special case of ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Proportional measurement.—A proportional measurement is defined by the 1919
Manual (364) to be "one resulting in concordant relation between all parts of an ..."
7. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1916)
"A. measurement OF EDUCATIONAL RESULTS I. Arithmetic.—The Courtis standard research
tests in the four fundamentals were first given in Boston in October, ..."
8. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"V. DOMESDAY measurement. IT is perhaps worth while to note here that the system
of measurement pursued in the Domesday Survey of Leicestershire differs in ..."
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