Word Meanings - MEASURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.

• Stathmograph
  A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.
• Statistical
  Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge, statistical tabulation.
• Statuesque
  Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.
• ADJUSTINGPLANEADJUSTINGSURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
• Estimated
  of Estimate
• Standard-wing
  A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• Statelily
  In a stately manner.
• Static
  Alt. of Statical
• Statistically
  In the way of statistics.
• Statuesquely
  In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.
• JUDGEMADE
  Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobri
• Estimating
  of Estimate
• Fixture
  That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away.
• Statable
  That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.
• Stateliness
  The quality or state of being stately.
• Statical
  Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects.
• Statistician
  One versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.
• Statuette
  A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
• Adjusted
  of Adjust

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