Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to be measured.
- adjective Of distinguished importance; significant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.
- Moderate; temperate; limited; of small quantity or extent: as, to meet with measurable success.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.
- adjective Moderate; temperate; not excessive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
measured . - adjective Of
significant importance . - noun That which can be measured; a
metric .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being measured
- adjective of distinguished importance
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Examples
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The authors applaud what they call measurable but uneven improvements in security but say that Iraq's political leaders are unable to effectively govern.
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I also don't think this means I'm doing dangerously badly, since I'm still doing the PT etc., all the concrete stuff that will continue to make things better in measurable, concrete ways, and since the lack of emotional energy is comparatively limited.
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Many school districts have a reform "plan," but the basic metrics for evaluating progress against the plan and reform milestones are not defined in measurable ways.
Christopher Scott: Reforming Education Reform -- Teaching in the Broken System Christopher Scott 2010
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Many school districts have a reform "plan," but the basic metrics for evaluating progress against the plan and reform milestones are not defined in measurable ways.
Christopher Scott: Reforming Education Reform -- Teaching in the Broken System Christopher Scott 2010
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They find “no short-term measurable reduction in alumni giving as a result of abolishing legacy preferences.”
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Ninety-two years on, and liberals, conservatives, and Marxists can all reckon August of 1914 as the month from which everything measurable is — to annex the title of Leonard Woolf's autobiography — downhill all the way.
Downhill All the Way 2006
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Ninety-two years on, and liberals, conservatives, and Marxists can all reckon August of 1914 as the month from which everything measurable is — to annex the title of Leonard Woolf's autobiography — downhill all the way.
Downhill All the Way 2006
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Ninety-two years on, and liberals, conservatives, and Marxists can all reckon August of 1914 as the month from which everything measurable is — to annex the title of Leonard Woolf's autobiography — downhill all the way.
Downhill All the Way 2006
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Most representatives seem to want much the same thing: a staged withdrawal, starting sometime next year, based on certain measurable contingencies.
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May I request that you address monetary and time diversions resulting in measurable improvements in the environment.
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