measurement

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

measurement
    n 1: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena
         according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully
         done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"
         [syn: {measurement}, {measuring}, {measure}, {mensuration}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Measurement \Meas"ure*ment\, n.
   1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as,
      measurement is required.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity
      ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five
      acres.
      [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

measurement

   <testing> The act or process of measuring; a figure, extent,
   or amount obtained by measuring.

   (1996-12-27)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "measurement":
      accounting, acreage, amount, amplitude, analyzing, appraisal,
      appraisement, appraising, appreciation, area, ascertainment,
      assessing, assessment, bigness, body, breadth, bulk, calculation,
      caliber, capacity, census, computation, counting, coverage,
      dactylonomy, depth, determination, diameter, dimension, dimensions,
      enumeration, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation,
      evaluative criticism, expanse, expansion, extension, extent,
      foliation, force, gauge, gauging, girth, greatness, height,
      inventorying, judgement, largeness, length, magnitude, mass,
      matter, measure, measuring, mensuration, mileage, numbering,
      numbers, numeration, opinion, pagination, period, proportion,
      proportions, quantification, quantity, quantization, quantum,
      radius, range, ranking, rating, reach, reckoning, scale, scope,
      size, spread, strength, substance, sum, tallying, telling, tonnage,
      valuation, valuing, view, volume, weighing, weight, whole, width