Definition of measurement

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Measurement (n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres..

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Cardiometry :: Cardiometry (n.) Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation..
Pneumometry :: Pneumometry (n.) Measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air.
Metre :: Metre (n.) A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric..
Seismometric :: Seismometric (a.) Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements..
Level :: Level (n.) A measurement of the difference of altitude of two points, by means of a level; as, to take a level..
Altitudinal :: Altitudinal (a.) Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements..
Holometer :: Holometer (n.) An instrument for making of angular measurements.
Hydrometrical :: Hydrometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to measurement of the velocity, discharge, etc., of running water..
Ozonometry :: Ozonometry (n.) The measurement or determination of the quantity of ozone.
High :: High (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high..
Metronomy :: Metronomy (n.) Measurement of time by an instrument.
Measure :: Measure (v. i.) To make a measurement or measurements.
Admeasure :: Admeasure (v. t.) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff..
Admensuration :: Admensuration (n.) Same as Admeasurement.
Coulomb :: Coulomb (n.) The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampere in one second. Formerly called weber..
Geometry :: Geometry (n.) That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space..
Measurement :: Measurement (n.) The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required..
Micrometer :: Micrometer (n.) An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass..
M :: M (n.) A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number..
Calorimetry :: Calorimetry (n.) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.
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