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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats