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
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
To reason, is to adapt our means, that is, our knowledge, for the attainment of the end or object proposed: it is the estimate or admeasurement of these means.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John
We are thus particular in her admeasurement, because it materially influenced the decision on her complaint.
From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by Wight, John
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
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