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  • noun Plural form of measurement.

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Examples

  • My experience with deciding on how to space shrubs is that in the South — areas with heat as well as ample water — to always take the label measurements with a grain of salt.

    Beefing Up The Fairy Gazebo « Fairegarden 2009

  • It seems clear that quantum mechanics is fundamentally about atoms and electrons, quarks and strings, not those particular macroscopic regularities associated with what we call measurements of the properties of these things.

    Bohmian Mechanics Goldstein, Sheldon 2006

  • One particular scientist, Hideki Asada, believes that the effect that actually accounts for their measurements is the light-cone effect.

    Charlottesville Man Discovers Speed of Gravity at cvillenews.com 2003

  • The intriguing thing about Conagua's lake measurements, is that they have it dropping by 2 centimeters over the last few days, while it has been pouring with rain. jsandrock

    Page 2 2010

  • The intriguing thing about Conagua's lake measurements, is that they have it dropping by 2 centimeters over the last few days, while it has been pouring with rain. jsandrock

    Page 2 2010

  • Willfully creating meaningless phrases, with spurious precision, to arbitrarily limit science to the crudest empiricism, measurements is a way to limit the domain of science.

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

  • I didn't think that you were making light of the Haiti earthquake: if anything, it gave a very good perspective in measurements that most Americans can grasp.

    "The courage of the coward— greater than all others." greygirlbeast 2010

  • The intriguing thing about Conagua's lake measurements, is that they have it dropping by 2 centimeters over the last few days, while it has been pouring with rain. jsandrock

    Page 2 2010

  • I didn't think that you were making light of the Haiti earthquake: if anything, it gave a very good perspective in measurements that most Americans can grasp.

    "The courage of the coward— greater than all others." greygirlbeast 2010

  • The intriguing thing about Conagua's lake measurements, is that they have it dropping by 2 centimeters over the last few days, while it has been pouring with rain. jsandrock

    Page 2 2010

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