Search Result for "measurement":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule;
- Example: "the measurements were carefully done"
- Example: "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"
[syn: measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Measurement \Meas"ure*ment\, n. 1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required. [1913 Webster] 2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "measurement": accounting, acreage, amount, amplitude, analyzing, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, area, ascertainment, assessing, assessment, bigness, body, breadth, bulk, calculation, caliber, capacity, census, computation, counting, coverage, dactylonomy, depth, determination, diameter, dimension, dimensions, enumeration, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, foliation, force, gauge, gauging, girth, greatness, height, inventorying, judgement, largeness, length, magnitude, mass, matter, measure, measuring, mensuration, mileage, numbering, numbers, numeration, opinion, pagination, period, proportion, proportions, quantification, quantity, quantization, quantum, radius, range, ranking, rating, reach, reckoning, scale, scope, size, spread, strength, substance, sum, tallying, telling, tonnage, valuation, valuing, view, volume, weighing, weight, whole, width
