measurement meaning

Noun: measurement  mezhurmunt

1. The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
   "the measurements were carefully done"
   - measuring, measure, mensuration

Derived forms: measurements

See also: measure

Type of: activity

Encyclopedia: Measurement

[Business]
AmE / noun

WORK MEASUREMENT

1 [C]

the size, length or amount of sth:

an inflation measurement

The exact measurements of the room are 3 metres 20 by 2 metres 84.

2 [U]

the act or process of finding the size, quantity or degree of sth:

Accurate measurement is very important in science.

measurement equipment/instruments/tools

[Electronics]
1. The process by which the magnitude, extent, or duration of a parameter is found.
2. The value of a parameter, as obtained, according to
1.
measurement error The difference between the measured value of a quantity and its true value. Also see NEGATIVE ERROR OF MEASUREMENT and POSITIVE ERROR OF MEASUREMENT.

[Medicine]
A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly. n
1 : the act or process of measuring
2 : a figure, extent, or amount obtained by measuring
3 : MEASURE 2

[Computer]
<testing> The act or process of measuring; a figure, extent, or amount obtained by measuring.

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• ballistic measurement:    [Mechanics]"Any me ...
• calibrated measurement:    [Electronics]1. A ...

Examples

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1. still, such measurements are very important.
2. i want you to take my chest measurement.
3. the tailor took my measurements for a new suit.
4. it depends on measurement of controlled variable.
5. total field measurement is not always desirable.