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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Measurement \Meas"ure*ment\, noun
1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
measurement
noun: the act or process of measuring; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate" [syn: {measuring}, {measure}, {mensuration}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "measurement": accounting, acreage, amount, amplitude, analyzing, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, area, ascertainment, assessing, assessment, bigness, body, breadth, bulk, calculation, caliber, capacity, census, computation, counting, coverage, dactylonomy, depth, determination, diameter, dimension, dimensions, enumeration, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, foliation, force, gauge, gauging, girth, greatness, height, inventorying, judgement, largeness, length, magnitude, mass, matter, measure, measuring, mensuration, mileage, numbering, numbers, numeration, opinion, pagination, period, proportion, proportions, quantification, quantity, quantization, quantum, radius, range, ranking, rating, reach, reckoning, scale, scope, size, spread, strength, substance, sum, tallying, telling, tonnage, valuation, valuing, view, volume, weighing, weight, whole, width
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
measurement The act or process of measuring; a figure, extent, or amount obtained by measuring. (1996-12-27)
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