MEASUREMENT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Measurement

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/mˈɛʒərmənt/ Listen

noun

Measurement n.

The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.

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

See images of 'Measurement'

Etymology of 'Measurement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Measurement" Quotes from Famous Books

... sheet of computations in his hand. "Report, sir. The albedo measurement is correct. Looks like this may ...

— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage

... forest. Many of them are anxious to prevent forest destruction, so far as that may be practicable without interfering with their profits, and for that purpose Foresters are beginning to be employed. Until now the principal tasks of Foresters employed by lumbermen have been the measurement of the amount of lumber in the standing crop of trees, and the protection of forest lands from fire. Here and there the practice of a certain amount of forestry has been added, but this part of the work of the private Forester employed by lumbermen has not been important. It is likely, however, ...

— The Training of a Forester • Gifford Pinchot

... you find the approximate weight of a boiler by measurement? A. Find the number of square feet in surface of boiler and fire box, and as a sheet of boiler iron or steel 1/16 of an inch thick, and one foot square, weighs 2.52 pounds, would multiply the number of square feet by 2.52 and this product by the number ...

— Rough and Tumble Engineering • James H. Maggard

... obliged to change the direction of the excavation in order not to invade a neighbouring catacomb. The designer's plan was a mere sketch, to be modified when necessary, and which was by no means intended to be strictly carried out. Hence the plan and measurement of the actual tomb of Rameses IV. (fig. 156) differ in the outline of the sides and in the general arrangement from the plan of that same tomb which is preserved on a papyrus in the Turin Museum (fig. 153). Nothing, however, could ...

— Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt • Gaston Camille Charles Maspero

... of their day. How Shakespeare violated the unities! and didn't Napoleon win battles which he should have lost? Let these people then be silent, and know that when a transcendent exhibition of original genius wins success beyond the reach of measurement by their plumb and line and square and compass, the higher law governing the seeming miracle will be duly revealed: and the Taj is just such a miracle, from all I can ...

— Round the World • Andrew Carnegie

More quotes...