admeasurement
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Origin of admeasurement
Example Sentences
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dimensions are so variously stated, owing largely to difference of opinion as to what should be embraced within the admeasurement, that we are at a loss how to give them.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
The following anatomical admeasurement of one of the best proportioned of our visitors was furnished by the surgeon, Mr. Hugh Bell: Full height Ft. in.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Flinders, Matthew
Europeans continued ignorant of its origin until a deputation of the French Academicians undertook a voyage to South America in 1735, for the purpose of obtaining the correct admeasurement of a degree of the meridian.
From Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Porter, Rufus
Aggregate admeasurement of six Aggregate admeasurement of six dug up and replanted.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie
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