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MEASURED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unhurried and with care and dignity
Example:
with all deliberate speed
Synonyms:
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Similar:
unhurried (relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Carefully thought out in advance
Example:
he made a deliberate decision not to respond negatively
Synonyms:
calculated; deliberate; measured
Classified under:
Similar:
intended (resulting from one's intentions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The rhythmic arrangement of syllables
Synonyms:
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Adjectives
Similar:
rhythmic; rhythmical (recurring with measured regularity)
Domain category:
metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Having notes of fixed rhythmic value
Synonyms:
measured; mensurable; mensural
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb measure
Context examples:
This is typically measured in birds and other non-mammalian vertebrates.
(Nucleated Thrombocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus)
This is typically measured in birds and other non-mammalian verebrates.
(Nucleated Thrombocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The identification of a tumor that is present at baseline and will not be quantifiably measured over the course of the study.
(Not Measured Tumor Identification, NCI Thesaurus)
A concentration unit measured as the number gram equivalents of solute per liter of solution.
(Normality Unit, NCI Thesaurus)
The identification of a tumor that is incapable of being measured at baseline.
(Non-Measurable Tumor Identification, NCI Thesaurus)
The anticipated length of a nonclinical study measured as a unit of time.
(Nonclinical Study Length, NCI Thesaurus)
We measured the dining-room, and found it would hold exactly eighteen couple, and the affair was arranged precisely after my plan.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
A unit of antibody concentration measured by comparison against a known concentration of antibodies in a standard reference specimen.
(Antibody Unit, NCI Thesaurus)
The Microarray Shared Resource supports Cancer Center research activity performing gene expression profiling in which the activity of many thousands of genes is measured simultaneously.
(Microarray Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of concentration of amount of substance of a component measured in nanomoles of the component per milligram of protein of the mixture.
(Nanomole per Milligram of Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
