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
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
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
He knows by actual admeasurement that some of them are much larger than the planet he occupies.
From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.
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
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