Definition of "measurement" []

• The act of measuring or the process of being measured. (noun)
• A system of measuring: measurement in miles. (noun)
• The dimension, quantity, or capacity determined by measuring: the measurements of a room. (noun)

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• "It treats of the measurement of surfaces, and is therefore applied in the _measurement_ of _land_."
• "˜measurement™, prefer to understand (*) as a property ascription: “the system has a certain categorical property, which corresponds to the observable A having, independently of any measurement, a value in the set B”."
• "Gigot: And that means, I think, from what I 've heard you say in the past, that teacher measurement is absolutely crucial."