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Measurement
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meas·ure·ment [ mezh-er-muh nt ]
Definitions related to measurement:
  • Annotation used to indicate the size or magnitude of something that was determined by comparison to a standard.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • General heading term covering detection and quantification of phenomena, for terms not treed elsewhere under TECHNOLOGY/TECHNIQUE.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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