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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.


Etymology

Origin of admeasurement

First recorded in 1590–1600; admeasure + -ment

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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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)

Of course, he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel

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