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MEASURER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does measurer mean?
• MEASURER (noun)
The noun MEASURER has 1 sense:
1. a person who makes measurements
Familiarity information: MEASURER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who makes measurements
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("measurer" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "measurer"):
photometrician; photometrist (someone who practices photometry)
Derivation:
measure (determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of)
Context examples
The measurer in the distance fell flat upon his face, and then jumping up again, he began to run in the opposite direction.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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