Synonyms:
measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration
Meaning: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"
Usage examples
I've been measuring by that farmhouse across the river for a long time, and she hasn't crawled up to it yet!
I wanted two or three pairs of the large clam-shells (measuring three feet across), but I did not want the meat inside.
We spent the day measuring our provisions and fixing up clothing arrangements for our journey; a good deal of progress has been made.
The space between these two rolls allowed pieces of rock measuring less than fourteen inches to descend to other smaller rolls placed below.
The rascals professed the greatest friendship for the trappers, but their actions not fully measuring their words, the white men looked to Carson for advice.
We thus have the same kind of provision for taking advantage of a universal movement in space as is made in solid geometry by three co-ordinates at right angles to one another for measuring such movements.
No, do not resist me, Chichikov, but allow me to imprint at least one baiser upon your lily-white cheek." And in his efforts to force upon Chichikov what he termed his "baisers" he came near to measuring his length upon the floor.
But savage man living among other animals without any society or fixed habitation, and finding himself early under a necessity of measuring his strength with theirs, soon makes a comparison between both, and finding that he surpasses them more in address, than they surpass him in strength, he learns not to be any longer in dread of them.