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# measurable

«measurable» in Mova's school dictionary: **able to be measured** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (measurable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Measurable means able to be measured. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurable/#m1)

2) Measurable also means big enough to be noticed, like a measurable difference. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science: length, mass, time and temperature are measurable; in goals and school reports, «measurable progress» means you can show how much better.

### examples

- Height is measurable with a tape measure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurable/#x1)
- Is happiness measurable? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurable/#x2)
- There was a measurable rise in temperature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurable/#x3)
- Set a measurable goal, like reading 20 pages a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurable/#x4)
- The plant showed measurable growth in a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurable/#x5)
- Kindness isn't easily measurable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurable/#x6)

### note

Spelling: drop the final e of «measure» and add «-able»: measurable. Opposite: immeasurable (too big to measure).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «measurable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.