Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Measurement

Nouns
  • measurement, admeasurement, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize
  • estimate, estimation
  • dead reckoning, reckoning etc. (numeration) Numeration
  • gauging etc. v.
  • horse power. metrology, weights and measures, compound arithmetic. measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers
  • gage, gauge
  • meter, line, rod, check
  • dividers
  • velo. flood mark, high water mark
  • Plimsoll line
  • index etc. Indication. scale
  • graduation, graduated scale
  • nonius
  • vernier etc. (minuteness) Littleness. [instruments for measuring] bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat) etc. Heat, barometer (air) etc. Air, anemometer (wind) [Air in motion] Wind, dynamometer, goniometer, (angle) Angularity meter
  • landmark etc. (limit) Limit
  • balance, scale etc. (weight) Gravity
  • marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph
  • rain gauge, rain gage
  • voltmeter (volts), ammeter (amps)
  • spectrophotometer (light absorbance)
  • mass spectrophotometer (molecular mass)
  • geiger counter, scintillation counter (radioactivity)
  • pycnometer (liquid density)
  • graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume)
  • radar gun (velocity)
  • radar (distance)
  • side-looking radar, (shape, topography)
  • sonar (depth in water)
  • light meter (light intensity)
  • clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time)
  • anemometer (wind velocity)
  • densitometer (color intensity). measurability, computability, determinability. coordinates, ordinate and abscissa, polar coordinates, latitude and longitude, declination and right ascension, altitude and azimuth. geometry, stereometry, hypsometry
  • metage
  • surveying, land surveying
  • geodesy, geodetics, geodesia
  • orthometry, altimetry
  • armillary sphere. land surveyor
  • geometer.
Verbs
  • measure, mete
  • determine, assay
  • evaluate, value, assess, rate, appraise, estimate, form an estimate, set a value on
  • appreciate
  • standardize. span, pace step
  • apply the compass etc. n.
  • gauge, plumb, probe, sound, fathom
  • heave the log, heave the lead
  • survey. weigh. take an average etc. Mean
  • graduate.
Adjectives
  • measuring etc. v.
  • metric, metrical
  • measurable, perceptible, noticeable, detectable, appreciable, ponderable, determinable, fathomable
  • geodetical, topographic, topographical, cartographic, cartographical.