noun
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule (Freq. 2)
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the measurements were carefully done
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his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate
• Syn: ↑measurement, ↑measure, ↑mensuration
• Derivationally related forms: ↑mensurate (for: ↑mensuration), ↑measure (for: ↑measure), ↑measure, ↑measure (for: ↑measurement)
• Hypernyms: ↑activity
• Hyponyms:
↑seismography, ↑quantitative analysis, ↑quantitative chemical analysis, ↑actinometry, ↑algometry, ↑anemography, ↑anemometry, ↑angulation, ↑anthropometry, ↑arterial blood gases, ↑audiometry, ↑bathymetry, ↑plumbing, ↑calorimetry, ↑cephalometry, ↑densitometry, ↑dosimetry, ↑fetometry, ↑foetometry, ↑hydrometry, ↑gravimetry, ↑hypsometry, ↑hypsography, ↑mental measurement, ↑micrometry, ↑observation, ↑pelvimetry, ↑photometry, ↑quantification, ↑radioactive dating, ↑reading, ↑meter reading, ↑sampling, ↑sounding, ↑sound ranging, ↑scaling, ↑spirometry, ↑surveying, ↑telemetry, ↑thermometry, ↑thermogravimetry, ↑tonometry, ↑viscometry, ↑viscosimetry
Useful english dictionary. 2012.