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
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 Daniel Defoe
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 Parley P. Pratt
Aristotle’s admeasurement of beds was six feet; and certainly the doorways of ancient edifices by no means indicated taller inmates than our present generation.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
If we investigate the standards of admeasurement, we find that many have been derived from the human body, and more especially from its operative instrument, the hand.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by John Haslam
