788 examples of measurement in sentences

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

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.

This action takes place on any meter completing a unit of measurement of (say) 1,000 cubic feet, at which point the contact makers touch.

In this way, by a comparison of these results, a coefficient would soon be arrived at, by which the daily recorded results could be corrected to an extremely accurate measurement.

The importance of submitting our faculties to measurement lies in the curious unconsciousness in which we are apt to live of our personal peculiarities, and which our intimate friends often fail to remark.

There is no bodily or mental attribute in any race of individuals that can be so dealt with, whether our judgment in comparing them be guided by common-sense observation or by actual measurement, which cannot be gripped and consolidated into an ogive with a smooth outline, and thenceforward be treated in discussion as a single object.

It is well to write the subject of the measurement on the paper before beginning to use it, then more than one set of records can be kept in the pocket at the same time, and be severally added to as occasion serves, without fear of mistaking one for the other.

One of our instruments is adjusted to give only 1/10th the refinement of measurement of the other by means of reduction in the length of the quartz fibre.

The measurement is made by the mutual repulsion of quartz fibres acting against a springthe extent of the repulsion is very clearly shown against a scale magnified by a telescope.

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

To-night Atkinson has taken the usual monthly measurement.

For instance, when the spoor of some unknown beast is described as 6 inches across, one shrewdly guesses that a cold scientific measurement would have reduced this figure by nearly a half; so it is with mountains, cliffs, waterfalls, &c. With all deduction on this account the lecture was extraordinarily interesting.

Here is a tracing of such a figure, founded on the actual measurement of 25,878 recruits for the United States army.

Man is the measure of man, and he may still be using a quantitative process even though he chooses in each case that method of measurement which is least affected by the imperfection of his powers.

The accurate measurement of very high temperatures is a matter of great importance, especially with regard to metallurgical operations; but it is also one of great difficulty.

"And you haven't got a solitary measurement of all these beautiful growth curves!" said Redwood.

The geographers of antiquity used to speak of it, giving the measurement of its terrible arms.

And Ferragut laughed in his turn at poor Science, ignorant and defenseless before the mysterious immensity of the ocean, and having scarcely achieved the measurement of its great depth.

The measurement of social status by the use of the social status scale.

DOANE, ROBERT R. The measurement of American wealth.

A guide to measurement in secondary schools.

A guide to measurement in secondary schools; a practical guide in the administration, construction, and use of tests and measurements in secondary education, by J. Murray Lee & Dorris May Lee.

The theory and measurement of demand.

Logical aspects of educational measurement.

Analytic system for the measurement of the relative fire hazard of breweries and malt houses.

788 examples of  measurement  in sentences