Admeasurement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Admeasurement is a noun meaning Apportionment.
Meaning
Apportionment.
More Meanings
- Measurement, the act of measuring.
Example Sentences
Though the figures are similar, their angles, on admeasurement by a nice instrument, differ very appreciably.
1781, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query I By admeasurements through nearly the whole of this last line, and supplying the unmeasured parts from good data, the Atlantic and Mississipi are found in this latitude to be 758 miles distant, equal to 13° 38′ of longitude, reckoning 55 miles and 3144 feet to the degree.
Word Forms
- admeasurements
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include apportioning, apportionment, applotment, admensuration, measuring, measurement.
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