Synonyms of measuring

measuring

verb

present participle of measure

1

as in gauging

to find out the size, extent, or amount of

for this experiment, you need to carefully measure all the chemicals before you mix them together

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gauging
• weighing
• scaling
• assessing
• estimating
• spanning
• ascertaining
• evaluating
• calculating
• determining
• computing
• judging
• quantifying
• calibrating
• figuring
• quantitating
• appraising
• guessing
• marking (off)
• valuing
• summing
• laying off
• discovering
• calipering
• adding up
• guesstimating
• valuating
• tallying
• figuring out
• totaling
• ciphering
• finding out
• working out
• supposing
• conjecturing
• reckoning
• doping (out)

2

as in controlling

to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)

he carefully measured his response to the provocative question

Synonyms & Similar Words

• controlling
• regulating
• containing
• curbing
• keeping
• restraining
• checking
• governing
• suppressing
• holding
• constraining
• inhibiting
• taming
• stifling
• ruling
• stopping
• pulling in
• bridling
• swallowing
• interrupting
• reining (in)
• blocking
• impeding
• hindering
• repressing
• holding back
• choking (back)
• arresting
• hampering
• strangling
• sinking
• obstructing
• bottling (up)
• smothering
• silencing
• squelching
• mincing
• muffling
• pocketing
• handcuffing
• muzzling
• gagging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing
• loosening
• expressing
• liberating
• venting
• taking out
• airing
• unleashing
• loosing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of measuring

The focus on metrics also highlights the challenges of measuring the performance of large language models using standardized benchmark tests and concerns that the specs are prone to manipulation and gamesmanship. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

Future treatments New cell and gene therapies for Huntington’s disease are being investigated, but researchers need ways of measuring what is happening inside the brain of a living person. — Claudia Metzler-Baddeley, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2026

Cloud seeding − introducing particles such as silver iodide into clouds to cause water droplets to freeze and fall as precipitation − is not new, but measuring its real-world success has been elusive. — Robert Abitbol, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026

Rain is forecast to start Saturday night across Southern California, but Sunday is expected to be the wettest day of the weekend with widespread but light rainfall measuring less than a quarter inch. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

The measuring device is a small disc that snaps into the back of a person’s underwear. — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026

Standing 13-feet-tall at the hip and measuring upwards of 43-feet-long, the Late Cretaceous hunter weighed as much as 19,500 pounds. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026

By sending light through the fiber and measuring how that light changes, engineers can work backward to determine what happened to the fiber. — Pawel Maniewski, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026

The newfound decagon is about 104,250 miles (167,820 kilometers) wide, with each of its 10 sides measuring about 10,425 miles (16,782 km) long. — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2026