- present participle of measure.
measuring
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Everything was made by hand with ratios determined by hand, not a measuring cup, even when baking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Type Ia supernovae are among astronomy's most important tools for measuring distances across the cosmos.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Since the current contains information about the qubit's quantum state, the researchers could then reconstruct that state without measuring the qubit directly.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
“You’ll be hard-pressed to tell any difference just looking with your eyes and not measuring it in some way that it’s different than a normal moon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
But Kepler had worked with Tycho Brahe, who had devised new instruments capable of measuring with astonishing accuracy to a single minute.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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