noun
Meaning 1
The act of measuring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
measurement
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈmɛʒ.ɚ.mənt/
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Canada, General-American: [ˈmɛʒ.ɚ.mn̩t]
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈmeʒ.ə.mənt/
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CMU ARPABET: M EH1 ZH ER0 M AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Value (quantity, magnitude, extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the measurements were carefully done
- his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: measuring, measure, mensuration
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: activity
Narrower terms: seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, actinometry, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, bathymetry, plumbing, calorimetry, cephalometry, densitometry, dosimetry, fetometry, foetometry, hydrometry, gravimetry, hypsometry, hypsography, mental measurement, micrometry, observation, pelvimetry, photometry, quantification, radioactive dating, reading, meter reading, sampling, sounding, sound ranging, scaling, spirometry, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English measure Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English measurement From measure + -ment.
Across languages
Translations
106 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: չափում (čʻapʻum) — act of measuring
- Belarusian: вымярэ́нне (vymjarénnje) — act of measuring
- Bulgarian: ме́рене (mérene) — act of measuring
- Bulgarian: изме́рване (izmérvane) — act of measuring
- Catalan: mesurament — act of measuring
- Crimean Tatar: ölçev — act of measuring
- Crimean Tatar: ölçeme — act of measuring
- Czech: měření — act of measuring
- Dutch: meting — act of measuring
- Esperanto: mezurado — act of measuring
- Finnish: mittaus — act of measuring
- Finnish: mittaaminen — act of measuring
- Finnish: määrittely — act of measuring
- Finnish: arviointi — act of measuring
- French: mesure — act of measuring
- Georgian: გაზომვა (gazomva) — act of measuring
- German: Messung — act of measuring
- Greek: καταμέτρηση (katamétrisi) — act of measuring
- Greek: μέτρηση (métrisi) — act of measuring
- Greek: επιμέτρηση (epimétrisi) — act of measuring
- Ancient Greek: μέτρησις (métrēsis) — act of measuring
- Hebrew: מְדִידָה (medidá) — act of measuring
- Hindi: माप (māp) — act of measuring
- Hindi: नाप (nāp) — act of measuring
- Hindi: मापन (māpan) — act of measuring
- Hindi: नापजोख (nāpjokh) — act of measuring
- Hindi: नापतौल (nāptaul) — act of measuring
- Hindi: नपाई (napāī) — act of measuring
- Hungarian: mérés — act of measuring
- Hungarian: megmérés — act of measuring
- Italian: misurazione — act of measuring
- Italian: misura — act of measuring
- Japanese: 測定 (sokutei) — act of measuring
- Kazakh: өлшем (ölşem) — act of measuring
- Korean: 측정 (cheukjeong) — act of measuring
- Macedonian: мерење (merenje) — act of measuring
- Malay: sukatan — act of measuring
- Māori: inenga — act of measuring
- Norwegian: måling — act of measuring
- Polish: pomiar — act of measuring
- Portuguese: medida — act of measuring
- Portuguese: medição — act of measuring
- Portuguese: mensuração — act of measuring
- Portuguese: medição — act of measuring
- Romanian: măsurare — act of measuring
- Romanian: măsurătoare — act of measuring
- Russian: измере́ние (izmerénije) — act of measuring
- Russian: обме́р (obmér) — act of measuring
- Scottish Gaelic: tomhas — act of measuring
- Sinhalese: මැනීම (mænīma) — act of measuring
- Slovak: meranie — act of measuring
- Spanish: medida — act of measuring
- Spanish: medición — act of measuring
- Spanish: medidas — act of measuring
- Spanish: mediciones — act of measuring
- Swahili: kipimo — act of measuring
- Swedish: mätning — act of measuring
- Tagalog: sukat — act of measuring
- Turkish: ölçüm — act of measuring
- Ukrainian: вимі́рювання (vymírjuvannja) — act of measuring
- Urdu: ناپ (nāp) — act of measuring
- Armenian: չափ (čʻapʻ) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Armenian: չափում (čʻapʻum) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Bulgarian: разме́р (razmér) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Catalan: mesura — magnitude determined by measuring
- Chinese Mandarin: 尺寸 (chǐcùn) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Dutch: meting — magnitude determined by measuring
- Esperanto: mezuro — magnitude determined by measuring
- Finnish: mittaustulos — magnitude determined by measuring
- Finnish: mitta — magnitude determined by measuring
- French: mesure — magnitude determined by measuring
- Georgian: ზომა (zoma) — magnitude determined by measuring
- German: Maß — magnitude determined by measuring
- German: Messwert — magnitude determined by measuring
- German: Maßangabe — magnitude determined by measuring
- German: Messen(von etwas) (Vorgang) — magnitude determined by measuring
- German: Aufmaß — magnitude determined by measuring
- German: Abmaß — magnitude determined by measuring
- Greek: διαστάσεις (diastáseis) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Ancient Greek: μέτρον (métron) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Hebrew: מדידה (medida) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Hindi: माप (māp) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Hindi: नाप (nāp) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Hindi: मापन (māpan) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Hungarian: méret — magnitude determined by measuring
- Japanese: 測定値 (sokuteichi) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Khmer: រង្វាស់ (rɔɔrŭəngvŏəh) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Māori: inenga — magnitude determined by measuring
- Navajo: íʼneelʼąąh — magnitude determined by measuring
- Polish: wielkość — magnitude determined by measuring
- Portuguese: medida — magnitude determined by measuring
- Romanian: măsură — magnitude determined by measuring
- Romanian: mărime — magnitude determined by measuring
- Russian: разме́р (razmér) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Russian: ме́ра (méra) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Russian: ме́рка (mérka) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Russian: измере́ние (izmerénije) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Scottish Gaelic: tomhas — magnitude determined by measuring
- Sinhalese: මිම්ම (mimma) — magnitude determined by measuring
- Spanish: medida — magnitude determined by measuring
- Spanish: medidas — magnitude determined by measuring
- Swahili: kipimo — magnitude determined by measuring
- Swedish: mått — magnitude determined by measuring
- Swedish: mätvärde — magnitude determined by measuring
- Tagalog: sukat — magnitude determined by measuring
- Tocharian B: yarm — magnitude determined by measuring
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