admeasurement

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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew what it was to be a Marquis down to the last inch of aristocratic admeasurement.

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

The dimensions are so variously stated, owing largely to difference of opinion as to what should be embraced within the admeasurement, that we are at a loss how to give them.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

The true admeasurement, as we may learn from the inspiring story of small nations, is not geometrical but metaphysical.

From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Duffy, Charles Gavan

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 Pratt, Parley P.