Admeasurement

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The process of measuring; the ascertainment of the numerical amount of any quantity.
  • noun. The numerical amount or measure of anything, whether a number, the dimensions of a solid, the bulk of a fluid, mass, duration, or degree.
  • noun. In law, ascertainment and assignment of the due proportion: as, admeasurement of damages, or of dower in an estate; admeasurement of the right of an individual in a common pasture.
  • noun. Sometimes called admensuration.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Apportionment.
  • Word Usage
    ""For its practical value it depends upon this," replied Dupin; and the Prefect and his cohort fall so frequently, first, by default of this identification, and, secondly, by ill-admeasurement, or rather through non-admeasurement, of the intellect with which they are engaged."
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