MEASURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does measuring mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEASURING (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 ("measuring" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

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

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

 Context examples 

Measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission.

(Densitometry, NCI Thesaurus)

Measuring the effects of a substance on a living organism.

(Device Bioassay Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

By measuring the light patterns from these interactions in or near the detector array, IceCube can estimate the neutrinos' directions and energies.

(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)

Biologic age was determined by measuring DNA methylation, a chemical modification to DNA that is part of the normal aging process.

(Older biologic age linked to elevated breast cancer risk, National Institutes of Health)

Measuring 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) in width as of April 3, 2017, the Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

The two facial regions key for measuring this ‘Pinocchio Effect’ are the forehead and the tip of the nose.

(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)

A 25 nucleotide probe with a sequence mismatch to its target at position 13 used for measuring non-specific binding in analysis of Affymetrix arrays.

(Mismatch Probe, NCI Thesaurus)

Measuring the amount of NMP22 in the urine may help diagnose cancer or find out how well treatment is working.

(NMP22, NCI Dictionary)

Astronomers call this passing pitch the “redshift” when measuring how quickly gases move toward an object away from Earth.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These differences can be detected by measuring the timing of the daily peaks in clock protein production in the different organs.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)