Associations to the word «Measurement»

Wiktionary

MEASUREMENT, noun. The act of measuring.
MEASUREMENT, noun. Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.
MEASUREMENT PROBLEM, noun. (quantum mechanics) The unresolved problem what causes a wavefunction to collapse into an eigenstate, or if wavefunctions collapse at all.
MEASUREMENT TON, noun. A unit of volume for cargo freight usually reckoned at 40 U.S. or Imperial cubic feet.
MEASUREMENT TONS, noun. Plural of measurement ton

Dictionary definition

MEASUREMENT, noun. The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate".

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.