measuring
/ˈmɛʒ.ə.ɹɪŋ/noun3 syllables
Measuring means: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule.
Synonyms for measuring3
noun, as in the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
What does measuring mean?1
noun
1
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule“the measurements were carefully done”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Measuring in a sentence
- Money is used for buying or selling goods, measuring value and storing wealth.unknown
- The thermometer is an instrument for measuring temperature.CK
- The pastry chef measured flour and sugar using a measuring cup.megamanenm
- I wonder how a government would go about measuring gross national happiness.darinmex
- I use a measuring cup when baking bread.CK
- We are measuring the depth of the river.CC
- An obstetrician estimates the progress of childbirth by measuring the time between each contraction.npvojtik
- There's no point in measuring people by their ability to memorize.urro
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of measuring
as a noun
- plural
- measurings