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Definition of Measures

1. measure [v] - See also: measure

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Measures

measurabilities measurability measurable measurably measure measure measured measuredly measured intelligence measureless

measurement measurement measurements measurer measurers measures (current term) measures of central tendency measure out measure up measuring

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Literary usage of Measures

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Weights and measures arc essential to all barter of goods. ... In the extractive and compounding industries, weights and measures arc used to ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"THE Committee on Coinage, Weights, and measures, to whom was referred the bill to adopt the weights and measures of the metric system as the standard ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1892)
"147, 159; the town's measures compared with the standards of Linlithgow, iv. ; a pattern of ... 397 ; against deceit in the measures of wine and ale, iv. ..."

4. Educational Psychology by Edward L. Thorndike (1910)
"The Average = (the sum of the individual measures) -f. (their number). The Median = the middle measure, the measure so chosen that the number of measures ..."

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