56 adjectives to describe measurement

In spite of its loneliness, however, the spot, by actual measurement, was not more than five miles from a county-town.

Moreover, the rate at which light travels is known by actual measurement; the rate at which electro-magnetic waves are propagated can be calculated from electrical measurements, and these two velocities exactly agree.

As thrown, after several reflections, upon the mirror destined afterwards to measure the image of the solar disc, the apparition of the halo was of course much less bright, and its outer boundary ill defined for accurate measurement.

R104385, 18Dec52, Martha Ostenso Durkin (A) OTIS, ARTHUR S. Statistical method in educational measurement.

In the Calaveras Grove there are four trees over 300 feet in height, the tallest of which by careful measurement is 325 feet.

The metre, which is the basis of the whole system of French weights and measures, is the exact measurement of one forty-millionth part of a meridian of the earth.

Mental measurements of any large group of population reveal a remarkable percentage of it as below the mental age of 12.

The radio-activity of the various rocks of our neighbourhood; this by direct measurement of the rock.

Leaving the camp at 7.0 a.m., steered an easterly course over somewhat barren granite country, timbered with cypress and ironbark; passed close to a hill on the highest point of the range, the summit of which, by approximate measurement, rose to 2500 feet above the sea.

Suppose the peaks are so distant from each other that the two are not visible simultaneously, and suppose you are speaking from a knowledge of the scientific measurements.

Thousands of men are of the same height, thousands of the same length of foot, thousands of the same girth of headthousands correspond in any separate measurement you may name.

Thus, on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt, as, for example, in detecting the parallax of a star.

The Minister of Marine, wishing to obtain scientific results, gave orders to form, when possible, a marine zoological collection, and to carry on surveying, deep-sea soundings, and abyssal thermometrical measurements.

The bootmaker looks at your boots and takes your intellectual, social and financial measurement from their quality and condition.

The method of absolute measurement in science has yielded miracles.

But this difficulty is one of the most serious weaknesses of large undertakings; precise detailed measurement is the great prophylactic of business efficiency, and, where it is lacking the bacilli of waste will enter in and multiply.

He took monthly measurements of the circumference of his children's heads during the first few years of their lives, and he laid down the successive measurements on the successive lines of a piece of ruled paper, by taking the edge of the paper as a base.

But this difficulty is one of the most serious weaknesses of large undertakings; precise detailed measurement is the great prophylactic of business efficiency, and, where it is lacking the bacilli of waste will enter in and multiply.

Construction and use of an interferometer for measurement of close double stars with the eighteen-inch refractor; continuation of the use of the interferometer for close double star measurements at Flower Observatory.

O'CONNOR, JOHNSON. Psychometrics; a study of psychological measurements.

Quantitative measurement is essential to efficiency.

But, in 1679, his mind again reverted to the subject; and in 1682, having obtained a correct measurement of the diameter of the earth, he repeated his calculations of 1666.

I would gladly have determined the proportions with more accuracy; but want of time, the inaccessibility of the edge of the bank, and the miserable condition of our raft, allowed of only a few rough measurements.

In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest, but it did look so odd for a kite to have a head and arms and legs!

But I will take a few more proportional measurements for the satisfaction of proving the case by scientific methods before we proceed to verify our conclusions by a visit to the spot.

56 adjectives to describe  measurement