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English
Etymology
measure + -ment
Pronunciation
Noun
measurement (plural measurements)
- The act of measuring.
- Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:measurement
- Value (quantity, magnitude, extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.
2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:Risk is everywhere. […] For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles” […] aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
Derived terms
Translations
act of measuring
- Armenian: չափում (hy) (čʻapʻum)
- Belarusian: вымярэ́нне n (vymjarénnje)
- Bulgarian: ме́рене (bg) n (mérene), изме́рване (bg) n (izmérvane)
- Catalan: mesurament (ca) m
- Crimean Tatar: ölçev, ölçeme
- Czech: měření (cs) n
- Dutch: meting (nl) f
- Esperanto: mezurado
- Finnish: mittaus (fi), mittaaminen (fi), määrittely (fi), arviointi (fi)
- French: mesure (fr) f
- Georgian: გაზომვა (gazomva)
- German: Messung (de) f
- Greek: καταμέτρηση (el) f (katamétrisi), μέτρηση (el) f (métrisi), επιμέτρηση (el) f (epimétrisi)
- Ancient: μέτρησις f (métrēsis)
- Hebrew: מְדִידָה (he) f (medidá)
- Hungarian: mérés (hu), megmérés (hu)
- Italian: misurazione (it), misura (it)
- Japanese: 測定 (ja) (そくてい, sokutei)
- Kazakh: өлшем (ölşem)
- Korean: 측정(測定) (ko) (cheukjeong)
- Macedonian: мерење n (merenje)
- Malay: sukatan (ms)
- Maori: inenga
- Norwegian: måling (no)
- Polish: pomiar (pl) m
- Portuguese: medida (pt) f, medição (pt) f, mensuração (pt) f, medição (pt)
- Romanian: măsurare (ro) f, măsurătoare (ro)
- Russian: измере́ние (ru) n (izmerénije), обме́р (ru) m (obmér)
- Scottish Gaelic: tomhas m
- Sinhalese: මැනීම (mænīma)
- Slovak: meranie n
- Spanish: medida (es) f, medición (es) f, medidas (es) f pl, mediciones (es) m pl
- Swahili: kipimo (sw)
- Swedish: mätning (sv) c
- Tagalog: sukat
- Turkish: ölçüm (tr)
- Ukrainian: вимі́рювання (uk) n (vymírjuvannja)
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magnitude determined by measuring
- Armenian: չափ (hy) (čʻapʻ), չափում (hy) (čʻapʻum)
- Bulgarian: разме́р (bg) m (razmér)
- Catalan: mesura (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 尺寸 (zh) (chǐcùn)
- Dutch: meting (nl) f
- Esperanto: mezuro
- Finnish: mittaustulos, mitta (fi)
- French: mesure (fr) f
- Georgian: ზომა (zoma)
- German: Maß (de) n, Messwert (de) m, Maßangabe f, Messen(von etwas) (Vorgang) n
- Greek: διαστάσεις (el) f pl (diastáseis)
- Ancient: μέτρον n (métron)
- Hebrew: מדידה (he) (medida)
- Hungarian: méret (hu)
- Japanese: 測定値 (そくていち, sokuteichi)
- Khmer: រង្វាស់ (km) (rŭəngvŏəh)
- Maori: inenga
- Navajo: íʼneelʼąąh
- Polish: wielkość (pl) f
- Portuguese: medida (pt)
- Romanian: măsură (ro) f, mărime (ro) f
- Russian: разме́р (ru) m (razmér), ме́ра (ru) f (méra), ме́рка (ru) f (mérka), измере́ние (ru) n (izmerénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: tomhas m
- Sinhalese: මිම්ම (si) (mimma)
- Spanish: medida (es) f, medidas (es) f pl
- Swahili: kipimo (sw)
- Swedish: mått (sv) n, mätvärde (sv) n
- Tagalog: sukat
- Tocharian B: yarm
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