noun
Meaning 1
Act of measurement.
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
measuring
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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General-American, UK: /ˈmɛʒ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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US, regional: /ˈmeɪ.ʒə.ɹɪŋ/
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Australian: /ˈmeʒ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
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CMU ARPABET: M EH1 ZH ER0 IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
present participle and gerund of measure
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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: measurement, 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
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: mittaus — act of measurement
- Georgian: გაზომვა (gazomva) — act of measurement
- Hindi: मापन (māpan) — act of measurement
- Hindi: माप (māp) — act of measurement
- Hindi: नाप (nāp) — act of measurement
- Hindi: नपाई (napāī) — act of measurement
- Hungarian: mérés — act of measurement
- Polish: mierzenie — act of measurement
- Portuguese: medição — act of measurement
- Portuguese: mensuração — act of measurement
- Portuguese: medida — act of measurement
- Portuguese: arqueação — act of measurement
- Russian: измере́ние (izmerénije) — act of measurement
- Ukrainian: вимі́рювання (vymírjuvannja) — act of measurement
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