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MEASURING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
Example:
his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate
Synonyms:
measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("measuring" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "measuring"):
micrometry (measuring with a micrometer)
observation (the act of making and recording a measurement)
pelvimetry (measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible))
photometry (measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity))
quantification (the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something)
radioactive dating (measurement of the amount of radioactive material (usually carbon 14) that an object contains; can be used to estimate the age of the object)
meter reading; reading (the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments)
sampling (measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form))
sounding (the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line))
sound ranging (locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions)
scaling (act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale)
spirometry (the use of a spirometer to measure vital capacity)
surveying (the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map)
telemetry (automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means)
thermometry (the measurement of temperature)
thermogravimetry (the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances)
tonometry (the measurement of intraocular pressure by determining the amount of force needed to make a slight indentation in the cornea)
viscometry; viscosimetry (the measurement of viscosity)
seismography (the measurement of tremors and shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes)
quantitative analysis; quantitative chemical analysis (chemical analysis to determine the amounts of each element in the substance)
actinometry (measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (especially of the sun's rays))
algometry (measuring sensitivity to pain or pressure)
anemography (recording anemometrical measurements)
anemometry (measuring wind speed and direction)
angulation (the precise measurement of angles)
anthropometry (measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities)
arterial blood gases (measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood; important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases)
audiometry (measuring sensitivity of hearing)
bathymetry; plumbing (measuring the depths of the oceans)
calorimetry (measurement of quantities of heat)
cephalometry (measurement of human heads)
densitometry (measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light on it and measuring its transmission)
dosimetry (measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source)
fetometry; foetometry (measurement of a fetus (especially the diameter of the head))
gravimetry; hydrometry (the measurement of specific gravity)
hypsography; hypsometry (measurement of the elevation of land above sea level)
mental measurement (a generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions)
Derivation:
measure (determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb measure
Context examples:
A lack of neutrophils or their normal function causes a variety of immune disorders and measuring neutrophil cell surface proteins can diagnose abnormal immune function.
(Neutrophil Surface Molecule Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Measuring the amount of MUC-1 in the blood may help to find out how well cancer treatment is working or if cancer has come back.
(MUC-1, NCI Dictionary)
Measuring the amount of specific cytokeratins in the blood may help to plan cancer treatment or find out how well treatment is working or if cancer has come back.
(Cytokeratin, NCI Dictionary)
Measuring the amount of cyclin-D1 in blood cells may help to diagnose cancer or plan cancer treatment.
(cyclin-D1, NCI Dictionary)
Measuring the amount of CA 15-3 in the blood may be useful in checking how well cancer treatment is working or if cancer has come back.
(CA 15-3, NCI Dictionary)
Measuring the amount of CD117 in tumor tissue may help diagnose cancer and plan treatment.
(CD117, NCI Dictionary)
Measuring the amount of CA 27.29 in the blood may help to find out how well cancer treatment is working or if cancer has come back.
(CA 27.29, NCI Dictionary)
In a clinical trial, measuring the cause-specific survival is one way to see how well a new treatment works.
(Cause-specific survival, NCI Dictionary)
By measuring the microdose-induced DNA damage, the response to oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy can be assessed and predicted.
(Carbon C 14 Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)
Measuring the amount of CD20 on blood cells may help to diagnose cancer or plan cancer treatment.
(CD20, NCI Dictionary)
