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measurement

[mezh-er-muhnt] / ˈmɛʒ ər mənt /


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It was established at Alpine's appeal that Gasly had not exceeded the pit-lane speeding limit by this new measurement, which was why the penalty was overturned.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

The latest reading has headline PCE at 3.7% and core PCE at 3.3%, and Warsh built much of Friday’s speech around that measurement.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

"This was a good opportunity to go back and go over all of our assumptions - it turns out, yes, we do understand this stuff and we're accounting for it in our cosmology measurement."

From Science Daily Aug. 29, 2026

Previous research in this area has used a measurement called wet-bulb temperature, which incorporates humidity to estimate how much heat a human body can withstand.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

The measurement of variance and heredity in humans, Galton reasoned, should unlock the secret.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“When consumers see ‘95% accuracy’ and a ring that can provide measurements of their sleep stages, they believe it, and that’s what’s dangerous,” says Shireen Clarkson, a lawyer representing Surber.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

For his part, Hausfather cautioned that there are “pretty big uncertainties when you are working with indirect measurements like coral proxy records,” so comparing historic El Niños to modern ones is inherently hard to do.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Another project combined satellite measurements of water surface heights with observations from drones and instruments on the ground.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

The work therefore points toward magnetic sensing systems that could perform measurements in multiple directions without requiring separate sensors for each one.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

In France, Marin Mersenne went to elaborate lengths in 1633 to replicate Galileo’s experiments and conduct accurate measurements.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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