measurement

IPA: mˈɛʒɝmʌnt

The act of measuring.
Value (quantity, magnitude, extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.

Examples of "measurement" in Sentences

A measurement of the distortion quantifies the number of broken wires.
But with respect to getting our troops out, the measurement is the stability of Iraq.
I do think though that the measurement is a little unfair to extrapolate much more than that.
It treats of the measurement of surfaces, and is therefore applied in the _measurement_ of _land_.
Gigot: And that means, I think, from what I 've heard you say in the past, that teacher measurement is absolutely crucial.
"This measurement is a very important step towards the goal of really understanding how tunnelling happens," Krausz told New Scientist.
John Ziesel, a San Diego-based neuroscientist at the Salk Institute, meanwhile, is researching what he refers to as measurement-based design, which shows how spaces can shape our behavior.
˜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”.