measurement

Roget category 466

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.2. Precursory conditions and operations
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#466. Measurement

noun

measurement, admeasurement^†, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize — estimate, estimation — dead reckoning, reckoning etc. (numeration) 85 — gauging etc. v. — horse power.
metrology, weights and measures, compound arithmetic.
measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers — gage, gauge — meter, line, rod, check — dividers — velo^†.
flood mark, high water mark — Plimsoll line — index etc. 550.
scale — graduation, graduated scale — nonius^† — vernier etc. (minuteness) 193.
[instruments for measuring] bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer^†, pantometer^†, pluviometer^†, pneumatometer^†, pneumometer^†, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer^†, telemeter, udometer^†, vacuometer^†, variometer^†, viameter^†, thermometer, thermistor (heat) etc. 382, barometer (air) etc. 338, anemometer (wind) 349, dynamometer, goniometer, (angle) 244 meter — landmark etc. (limit) 233 — balance, scale etc. (weight) 319 — marigraph^†, pneumatograph^†, stethograph^† — rain gauge, rain gage — voltmeter (volts), ammeter (amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer (molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter (radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar, (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity). measurability, computability, determinability^†.
coordinates, ordinate and abscissa, polar coordinates, latitude and longitude, declination and right ascension, altitude and azimuth.
geometry, stereometry^†, hypsometry^† — metage^† — surveying, land surveying — geodesy, geodetics^†, geodesia^† — orthometry^†, altimetry^† — cadastre [Fr.].
astrolabe, armillary sphere^†.
land surveyor — geometer.

verb

measure, mete — determine, assay — evaluate, value, assess, rate, appraise, estimate, form an estimate, set a value on — appreciate — standardize.
span, pace step — apply the compass etc. n. — gauge, plumb, probe, sound, fathom — heave the log, heave the lead — survey.
weigh.
take an average etc. 29 — graduate.

adjective

measuring etc. v. — metric, metrical — measurable, perceptible, noticeable, detectable, appreciable, ponderable, determinable, fathomable — geodetical, topographic, topographical, cartographic, cartographical.

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