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# measurement

«measurement» in Mova's school dictionary: **a number with a unit that tells how long, heavy, big, hot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a measurement, measurements; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A measurement is a number with a unit that tells how long, heavy, big, hot or fast something is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurement/#m1)

2) Measurement is the act of measuring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurement/#m2)

3) Your measurements are the sizes of your body, such as waist and height, used for clothes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurement/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science: take measurements with rulers, scales and thermometers; units like cm, kg, litres and °C; record measurements in tables. Phrases: take a measurement, accurate measurement, units of measurement.

### examples

- The measurement of the table is 120 cm by 80 cm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurement/#x1)
- Write each measurement with its unit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurement/#x2)
- We took measurements of the plant every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurement/#x3)
- The tailor took my measurements for a suit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurement/#x4)
- Measurement of time uses seconds, minutes and hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurement/#x5)
- Check your measurements twice before cutting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measurement/#x6)

### note

Countable or uncountable. A measurement needs a number and a unit: "5" alone is not a measurement, "5 cm" is. In maths: change measurements to the same unit before adding (1 m + 20 cm = 120 cm).

### In the corpora

- [The scientific method means testing ideas by careful experiments and measurements rather than trusting old books.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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