Definitions for admeasurement

admeasurement ad·meas·ure·ment

Spelling: [ad-mezh-er-muh nt]
IPA: /ædˈmɛʒ ər mənt/

Admeasurement is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 1354 anagrams from letters in admeasurement (aadeeemmnrstu).

Definitions for admeasurement

noun

  1. the process of measuring.
  2. the number, dimensions, or measure of anything.
  3. apportionment.

Origin of admeasurement

First recorded in 1590-1600; admeasure + -ment

Examples for admeasurement

Also, the admeasurement of a ship, and thence to ascertain her cubical contents converted into tons.

Their vastness seems to defy our admeasurement, and their complexity and difficulty may defeat our feeble efforts at solution.

This admeasurement raised my merriment to its acme, and I laughed aloud.

He was one of those who made the journey to the north in 1785, for the admeasurement of the globe.

I determined, therefore, to suspend my belief till I could take the admeasurement of each vessel.

We are thus particular in her admeasurement, because it materially influenced the decision on her complaint.

The vessel, then, in the plate is the vessel now mentioned, and the following is her admeasurement as given in by Captain Parrey.

This so-called Statute of admeasurement has not been traced to any authoritative source.

Of the former there can be no admeasurement, excepting by its effect, which is recollection: its duration can be well ascertained.

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