admeasurement
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Origin of admeasurement
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spitalfields Weavers have extremely small heads, 6-1/2, 6-5/8, 6-3/4, being the prevailing admeasurement.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 by Various
The admeasurement of the island, however inaccurate, is from the best authorities of those times, and followed by much later historians.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
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
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
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