METROLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metrology mean? 

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

1. the scientific study of measurement

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• METROLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The scientific study of measurement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Derivation:

metrological (of or relating to metrology)

 Context examples 

International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, for Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) is the agency which was given authority by diplomatic treaty the Convention of the Metre to maintain the International System of Units and to act in matters of world metrology, particularly concerning the demand for measurement standards of ever increasing accuracy, range and diversity, and the need to demonstrate equivalence between national measurement standards.

(International Bureau of Weights and Measures, NCI Thesaurus)