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

In the reign of Henry V. the trade had become of such importance that a special Act was passed providing for the admeasurement of ships and barges employed in the coal trade.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

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

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

Mode of procuring and paying seamen in that trade—their mortality in it—Construction and admeasurement of Slave-ships—Difficulty of procuring evidence—Cases of Gardiner and Arnold CHAP.

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II by Clarkson, Thomas