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Examples of measurement in a Sentence
The test is for the measurement of a student's progress.
The instruments provide accurate measurement of atmospheric conditions.
The room's measurements are 30 by 15 feet.
The instruments are used for taking measurements of atmospheric conditions.
Accurate measurements are required in carpentry.
The tailor took his measurements, and his waist measurement is 36 inches.
Recent Examples of measurement from the Web
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If the measurement is right, then something must have cooled the regular matter down.
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The measurement will bolster statistics that help predict the chances flooding like Sunday’s will occur in the future.
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The goal is to do the measurement and align the spacecraft the way the mission plan intends.
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Oyama said the measurements taken were from a preliminary list put together by feedback from the coaches and athletes.
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At its board meeting last month, TriMet General Manager Doug Kelsey said the commuter line saw the average number of March daily boardings - the measurement TriMet uses to calculate ridership - land at 1,540, a 13.2 percent drop from a year earlier.
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The official measurement indicated that the poverty rate fell by a scant 4.4 percentage points from 1960 to 2010, ending at 15.1%.
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This is the highest concentration of the heat-trapping gas ever recorded at the Observatory, where direct measurements have been taking place for more than 60 years, giving us the longest detailed record.
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Because it wasn’t placed directly on the ground, wind often obscured the measurements.
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First Known Use of measurement
1590
measurement Synonyms
Related Words
area;
capaciousness, commodiousness, roominess, spaciousness;
ampleness, amplitude, bigness, bulkiness, enormousness, heftiness, hugeness, immenseness, immensity, largeness, mass, massiveness, monstrousness, stupendousness, tremendousness, vastness, volume, voluminousness;
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MEASUREMENT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of measurement for English Language Learners
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: the act or process of measuring something
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: a size, length, or amount known by measuring something
MEASUREMENT Defined for Kids
Definition of measurement for Students
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: the act of determining size, capacity, or quantity
- The instruments provide accurate measurement.
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: the extent, size, capacity, or amount of something as has been determined
The room's measurements are 20 feet by 14 feet.
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