measurement
noun
Simple meaning
Assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈmɛʒɚmənt
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
Value (quantity, magnitude, extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.
The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B1 · Intermediate
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: Value (quantity, magnitude, extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.
Used this way, measurement is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Nearby words
- mensuration , rarer, so it draws attention
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
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- “The measurements were carefully done.”noun
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Word Family
Related forms, grouped by how they connect.
Word family
Words built from the same root.
Capable of being measured.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions.
An ordered reference standard.
Accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared.
A system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic.
Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
Related words
Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.
Determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of.
Determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of.
A unit of measurement.
Measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals.
Measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals.
A unit of measurement.
Related Words
Connected to the same idea, not synonyms.
- accuracynoun
- precisionnoun
- quantumnoun
- calculationnoun
- calibrationnoun
- metricnoun
- measuredadjective
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Synonyms
Sense: value (quantity or magnitude or extent
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