admeasurement
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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The middle term for the rest of France is about nine hundred inhabitants to the same admeasurement.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
The following anatomical admeasurement of one of the best proportioned of our visitors was furnished by the surgeon, Mr. Hugh Bell: Full height Ft. in.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Flinders, Matthew
I admire the exact admeasurement of my niece in your mother’s letter—O! the little span-long elf.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, 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