common measure
noun
: a meter consisting chiefly of iambic lines of 7 accents each arranged in rhymed pairs usually printed in 4-line stanzas
called also common meter
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The forgetting model did slightly worse than the conventional one, receiving a score of 85.1 compared to 86.1 on one common measure of language accuracy.
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Amos Zeeberg, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2024
In summary, the common measures of knowledge spillovers might actually capture cooperation and intentional knowledge sharing between business partners.
—Quora, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
By common measures, Manjula Martin is not a hopeful person.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
When taxes and government aid are figured in to get a more accurate view of actual household incomes, a Congressional Budget Office study found that the Gini index, the most common measure of income inequality, actually dropped about 5% from 2007 to 2019.
—Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
By expressing skin tone using only a sliding scale from lightest to darkest or white to black, today’s common measures ignore the contribution of yellow and red hues to the range of human skin, according to Sony researchers.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
Book value, earnings, and revenue are the three most common measures.
—John Dorfman, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
More than 40 percent of restaurant workers are living with an income that’s less than double the federal poverty line, a common measure for defining low-income households or families that cannot make ends meet.
—Elena Soderblom, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
David Ely, San Diego State University YES: While inflation has declined over the past year, common measures of headline and core inflation are still above the Fed’s target of 2 percent.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
Amos Zeeberg, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2024
In summary, the common measures of knowledge spillovers might actually capture cooperation and intentional knowledge sharing between business partners.
—Quora, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
By common measures, Manjula Martin is not a hopeful person.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
When taxes and government aid are figured in to get a more accurate view of actual household incomes, a Congressional Budget Office study found that the Gini index, the most common measure of income inequality, actually dropped about 5% from 2007 to 2019.
—Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
By expressing skin tone using only a sliding scale from lightest to darkest or white to black, today’s common measures ignore the contribution of yellow and red hues to the range of human skin, according to Sony researchers.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
Book value, earnings, and revenue are the three most common measures.
—John Dorfman, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
More than 40 percent of restaurant workers are living with an income that’s less than double the federal poverty line, a common measure for defining low-income households or families that cannot make ends meet.
—Elena Soderblom, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
David Ely, San Diego State University YES: While inflation has declined over the past year, common measures of headline and core inflation are still above the Fed’s target of 2 percent.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023
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“Common measure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20measure. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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