Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of measuring or the process of being measured.
- n. A system of measuring: measurement in miles.
- n. The dimension, quantity, or capacity determined by measuring: the measurements of a room.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of measuring; mensuration.
- n. A system of measuring or measures: as, builders' measurement.
- n. An ascertained dimension; the length, breadth, thickness, depth, extent, quantity, capacity, etc., of a thing as determined or determinable by measuring; size, bulk, area, or contents.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of measuring.
- n. Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by measurement.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or result of measuring; mensuration.
- n. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
Etymologies
- measure + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It treats of the measurement of surfaces, and is therefore applied in the _measurement_ of _land_.”
Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
“˜measurement™, prefer to understand (*) as a property ascription: “the system has a certain categorical property, which corresponds to the observable A having, independently of any measurement, a value in the set B”.”
“Gigot: And that means, I think, from what I 've heard you say in the past, that teacher measurement is absolutely crucial.”
“John Ziesel, a San Diego-based neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, meanwhile, is researching what he refers to as measurement-based design, which shows how spaces can shape our behavior.”
“This measurement is a very important step towards the goal of really understanding how tunnelling happens," Krausz told New Scientist.”
“I do think though that the measurement is a little unfair to extrapolate much more than that.”
“But with respect to getting our troops out, the measurement is the stability of Iraq.”
“Hence the discontinuous change of the wavefunction, which happens because our knowledge changes discontinuously when we make a measurement, is regarded by them as a problem, which they call the measurement problem.”
“And WHAT THE CRAP kind of measurement is "scant 1 5/8"!!!!”
“Broader argument: if measurement is intractable, maybe we have the wrong focus — maybe we should look at the types of activities that tend to generate certain benefits or costs.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘measurement’.
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
place bet, Przewalski's horse, piaffe, genus Claviceps, stadium jumping, draft animal, snaffle bit, noseband, equestrian sport, endurance riding, curb bit, dressage and 678 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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-ment
result; product; instrument; means
pavement, adornment, measurement, disappointment, appointment, reappointment, government, management, development, department, movement, agreement and 40 more...
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science (collective opinion)
random scientific terms from a group of one hundred 16-18 year olds to choose 100 words that, in their collective opinion, represent crucial factors and concepts influencing trends in science today...
acid, base, aggregation status, analysis, antimatter, apparatus, atmosphere, atom, bacteria, Big Bang, biodiversity, bioethics and 90 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Dirty HR Words
Words I should never use on the job.
benefits, compensation, strategic, training, recruiting, human resources, staffing, selection, turnover, administer, regulation, osha and 31 more...
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