measurement; measuring; measure; mensuration




the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

"the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"

Type of:
  • activity

Types:
  • 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


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