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Scale of measurement   /skeɪl əv mˈɛʒərmənt/   Listen
Scale of measurement

noun
1.
An ordered reference standard.  Synonyms: graduated table, ordered series, scale.






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"Scale of measurement" Quotes from Famous Books



... imagination into infinity the stages of its progressive diffusion. A fiery arrow seems to be let loose, which from that moment is destined to travel, without intermission, westwards for three hundred [Footnote: "Three hundred":—Of necessity, this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little fibbing, by ascribing to an Englishman a pompous ...
— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey



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