MEASUREMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does measurement mean? 

• MEASUREMENT (noun)
  The noun MEASUREMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

  Familiarity information: MEASUREMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEASUREMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration

Context example:

his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate

Hypernyms ("measurement" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "measurement"):

sound ranging (locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions)

micrometry (measuring with a micrometer)

observation (the act of making and recording a measurement)

pelvimetry (measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible))

photometry (measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity))

quantification (the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something)

radioactive dating (measurement of the amount of radioactive material (usually carbon 14) that an object contains; can be used to estimate the age of the object)

meter reading; reading (the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments)

sampling (measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form))

sounding (the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line))

mental measurement (a generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions)

scaling (act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale)

spirometry (the use of a spirometer to measure vital capacity)

surveying (the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map)

telemetry (automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means)

thermometry (the measurement of temperature)

thermogravimetry (the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances)

tonometry (the measurement of intraocular pressure by determining the amount of force needed to make a slight indentation in the cornea)

viscometry; viscosimetry (the measurement of viscosity)

audiometry (measuring sensitivity of hearing)

quantitative analysis; quantitative chemical analysis (chemical analysis to determine the amounts of each element in the substance)

actinometry (measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (especially of the sun's rays))

algometry (measuring sensitivity to pain or pressure)

anemography (recording anemometrical measurements)

anemometry (measuring wind speed and direction)

angulation (the precise measurement of angles)

anthropometry (measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities)

arterial blood gases (measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood; important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases)

seismography (the measurement of tremors and shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes)

bathymetry; plumbing (measuring the depths of the oceans)

calorimetry (measurement of quantities of heat)

cephalometry (measurement of human heads)

densitometry (measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission)

dosimetry (measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source)

fetometry; foetometry (measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head))

gravimetry; hydrometry (the measurement of specific gravity)

hypsography; hypsometry (measurement of the elevation of land above sea level)

Derivation:

measure (express as a number or measure or quantity)

measure (determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of)

 Context examples 

The current findings contribute to a better understanding, particularly because researchers looked at overnight measurements of oxygen levels.

(Researchers identify genetic variations linked to oxygen drops during sleep, National Institutes of Health)

Measurement: 0.6-1 volt/metre we're at about 100m from the antenna behind me.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The disturbance measurements following the earthquake rupture are circled in black.

(GPS Data Show How Nepal Quake Disturbed Earth’s Upper Atmosphere, NASA)

A measurement of the alanine aminotransferase in a biological specimen.

(Alanine Aminotransferase Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A measurement of the melatonin hormone in a biological specimen.

(Melatonin Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

“Inevitably, we expect to find outliers to the current trends as well as measurements of other chemicals.”

(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)

A measurement of the methadone present in a biological specimen.

(Methadone Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A measurement of the mengingeal cells in a biological specimen.

(Meningeal Cell Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A quantitative measurement of alanine aminotransferase present in a sample.

(Alanine Aminotransferase Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the alanine aminopeptidase in a biological specimen.

(Alanine Aminopeptidase Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)