Measurement
['meʒəm(ə)nt] or ['mɛʒɚmənt]
解释:
(noun.) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; 'the measurements were carefully done'; 'his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate'.
校对:露辛达--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
(n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
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同义词及近义词:
n. Mensuration.
整理:保罗
例句:
- The only known standard for the measurement of time is the movement of the earth in relation to the stars. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The micrometer was a further advance in exact measurement. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The prisoner counted the measurement again, and paced faster, to draw his mind with him from that latter repetition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Another Platonist made the first measurement of the earth's circumference. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Its amount or measurement is determined in any instance by a dynamometer. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- They are big through the chest by measurement, and healthy. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Descartes' interest was not in the several branches of mathematics; rather he wished to establish a uni versal mathematics, a general science relating to order and measurement. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- O endless vocatives that would still leave expression slipping helpless from the measurement of mortal folly! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Galileo, to whom the advance in exact science is so largely indebted, must also be credited with the fir st apparatus for the measurement of temperatures. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Gold is divided into twenty-four parts--that is, pure gold is said to contain twenty-four carats--the carat being just a measurement term. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Clandestine and occasional vice is beyond all measurement. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I left my measurement with a tailor, with directions not to make the uniform until I notified him whether it was to be for infantry or dragoons. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Their method of field measurement was far less developed than the ancient Egyptian geometry, and even for it (as well as for their system of numerals) they were indebted to the Etruscans. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- But now observe this other measurement. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Houston & Kennelly in their Electricity in Everyday Life sum the matter up as follows: The Edison chemical meter is capable of giving fair measurements of the amount of current passing. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- In practice, and for measurements of a very delicate nature, the tasimeter is inserted in one arm of a Wheatstone bridge, as shown at A in the diagram (Fig. 2). 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I eat to keep my weight constant, hence I need never change measurements. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I have tried to reconstruct it from the measurements. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- His conversation, I remember, was about the Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- He said that some twenty years ago a suit was sent to him from Orange, and measurements were made from it, and that every suit since had been made from these measurements. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I knew that it was the mark made by Brunton in his measurements, and that I was still upon his trail. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Preparations are afoot, measurements are made, ground is staked out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The one nearest the Valley Road is called the galvanometer-room, and was originally intended by Edison to be used for the most delicate and minute electrical measurements. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Accurate measurements show that these ornaments were not handwork, for there is not the slightest deviation in dimensions. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Man has not been able to tell definitely just what the greatest depth of the ocean is, because it would be a practically unending task to go over every bit of it to take measurements. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- For many years a suit was used as a measurement; once or twice they took fresh measurements, but these didn't fit and they had to go back. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The most accurate measurements make the polar diameter about twenty-seven miles less than the equatorial, the equatorial diameter being found to be 7,925. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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