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STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does standard of measurement mean?
• STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT (noun)
The noun STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT has 1 sense:
1. accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
Familiarity information: STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
gauge; standard of measurement
Hypernyms ("standard of measurement" is a kind of...):
criterion; measure; standard; touchstone (a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated)
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