admeasuring

verb

present participle of admeasure
as in measuring

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for admeasuring
  1. measuring
  2. dividing
  3. dealing
  4. prorating
  5. allotting
  6. handing out
  7. splitting
  8. dispensing
Verb
  • Researchers can look for this signal by measuring the average vertical direction of the positrons produced when the muons decay.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The psychologists Fredrickson and Joiner have tested this theory, measuring 138 people.
    — Kevin Kruse, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of measuring
Verb
  • Chin-Hong thinks about risk as a continuum, rather than dividing the world into safe and dangerous.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Drew Fisher of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, hit the attenuator dividing Interstate 94 from the Lyndale Avenue exit near Olson Memorial Highway, the Minnesota State Patrol said.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of dividing
Verb
  • Had the technical stood, Clark would have been forced to sit out Tuesday’s matchup against the New York Liberty, dealing a significant blow to Indiana as the Fever continue their push through the season.
    — Chantz Martin OutKick, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Irish police said at the time that the ⁠gang had ‌gone from dealing heroin and cocaine in Dublin in the 1990s to operating across Europe.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of dealing
Verb
  • Denver could cut his cap number almost in half by guaranteeing him $8-10 million, paying it as a bonus and prorating it out.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The players don’t lose any money, but the team gets to reduce their cap numbers by prorating the signing bonus over the term of the contracts.
    — Jonathan M. Alexander, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2026
Definition of prorating
Verb
  • Inevitably, team evil has cooler powers, like Sindel’s scream and Kung Lao’s hat of doom, but in addition to allotting an inordinate amount of its combat time to Shao Kahn, who’s just a hulking guy with a hammer, the movie’s big visual idea is characters blasting one another with beams.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • The framework proposes allotting $20 million of it to the Rays.
    — Nicolas Villamil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
Definition of allotting
Verb
  • This entails handing out thousands of patronage jobs to rabbis, bureaucrats, undertakers, and inspectors.
    — Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Drake has been handing out cash to his fans — and passersby — for years.
    — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of handing out
Verb
  • The new order calls for splitting up combination vaccines, like the one that protects against measles, mumps and rubella, which would be given as three shots instead of one, at three separate office visits.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The order also calls for splitting the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine into separate shots, which would require years of investment.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of splitting
Verb
  • Instead, the provider manages gas sourcing, compression, transportation, storage, and dispensing through a single service.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026
  • There was even a machine dispensing soft-serve ice cream at the Jay Street station in Brooklyn.
    — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of dispensing
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