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UNMEASURED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unmeasured mean?
• UNMEASURED (adjective)
The adjective UNMEASURED has 2 senses:
1. not composed of measured syllables; not metrical
2. without limits in extent or size or quantity
Familiarity information: UNMEASURED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not composed of measured syllables; not metrical
Context example:
unmeasured prose
Similar:
unrhythmic; unrhythmical (not rhythmic; irregular in beat or accent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Without limits in extent or size or quantity
Synonyms:
illimitable; limitless; measureless; unmeasured
Context example:
The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
Similar:
immeasurable; immensurable; unmeasurable (impossible to measure)
Context examples
A computed estimate of the unmeasured anions (those other than the chloride and bicarbonate anions) in a biological specimen.
(Anion Gap Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Among the most significant: a previously unmeasured acceleration of glacier flow into Antarctica’s Getz Ice Shelf, on the southwestern part of the continent — likely a result of ice-shelf thinning.
(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)
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