Measurement

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Measurement \Meas"ure*ment\, n.
     1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as,
        measurement is required.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity


        ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five
        acres.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  measurement
       n : the act or process of measuring; "the measurements were
           carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably
           accurate" [syn: {measuring}, {measure}, {mensuration}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "measurement":
     accounting, acreage, amount, amplitude, analyzing, appraisal,
     appraisement, appraising, appreciation, area, ascertainment,
     assessing, assessment, bigness, body, breadth, bulk, calculation,
     caliber, capacity, census, computation, counting, coverage,
     dactylonomy, depth, determination, diameter, dimension, dimensions,
     enumeration, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation,
     evaluative criticism, expanse, expansion, extension, extent,
     foliation, force, gauge, gauging, girth, greatness, height,
     inventorying, judgement, largeness, length, magnitude, mass,
     matter, measure, measuring, mensuration, mileage, numbering,
     numbers, numeration, opinion, pagination, period, proportion,
     proportions, quantification, quantity, quantization, quantum,
     radius, range, ranking, rating, reach, reckoning, scale, scope,
     size, spread, strength, substance, sum, tallying, telling, tonnage,
     valuation, valuing, view, volume, weighing, weight, whole, width
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  measurement
       
           The act or process of measuring; a figure, extent,
          or amount obtained by measuring.
       
          (1996-12-27)