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
A special difficulty attended it as to admeasurement: the customary treatment of other holdings could not in this case serve as a standard.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
But a close admeasurement of the distance will disprove the Norwich theory.
From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
The act or process of ascertaining the dimensions of anything; mensuration; measurement; as, the admeasurement of a ship or of a cask.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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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