admeasurement

American  

[ad-mezh-er-muhnt] / ædˈmɛʒ ər mənt /

noun

1. the process of measuring.

2. the number, dimensions, or measure of anything.

3. apportionment.

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Etymology

Origin of admeasurement

First recorded in 1590–1600; admeasure + -ment

Example Sentences

Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the former there can be no admeasurement, excepting by its effect, which is recollection: its duration can be well ascertained.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John

The phenomenon had not been explained—the instruments had not yet been invented which could fathom its depths, or take the admeasurement at the meridian.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Aristotle’s admeasurement of beds was six feet; and certainly the doorways of ancient edifices by no means indicated taller inmates than our present generation.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Surely hard biting is sufficiently appreciable by the person bitten without any visual admeasurement of the masseter muscles or the zygomatic arches.

From Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin by Ball, W. P. (William Platt)