(n.) The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
(n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(3) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(4) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(5) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(7) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(8) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(9) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(10) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(11) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(12) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(13) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(14) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(15) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(16) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(17) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(18) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(19) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(20) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
Metrology
Definition:
(n.) The science of, or a system of, weights and measures; also, a treatise on the subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) A possibility of metrological provision for coagulation test automating equipment without creating standard patterns was proved on the blood coagulation meter of the thermoconductometric type.
(2) High operational and metrological parameters of the rectifier are gained due to the cylinder differential electromagnetic system, which has distributed magnetic and concentrated electrical parameters.
(3) The metrological and computational problems of detecting very weak variations in the frequencies of the fundamental tone are discussed from a signal processing point of view.
(4) The improvement of the metrological, physiological and dynamic characteristics of the tachospirometric equipment attained by means of the suggested method is demonstrated.
(5) The new complex set of metrological characteristics for the biochemical automatic unit concentration meter allows it to make a change from the absolute photometric scale of the device to the one in relative units.
(6) On the ground results derived from an analysis of metrological characteristics of the biochemical automatic unit systems and of their influence on the end-result with due regard for actual operating conditions a formula for the automatic unit error was deduced.
(7) All metrological and chemical tests were performed at the Knitting Industry Main Centre for Research and Development "Tricomed" in Lódź.
(8) Starting from the explanation of the terms "comparison" and "quantification" a concept of a metrologically correct measuring system is derived.
(9) Nevertheless, metrologic and physiological factors can complicate theoretically the model.
(10) Senior Fellow Optical Frequency Standards and Metrology, National Physical Laboratory.
(11) Large volume tissue-equivalent proportional counters are of interest in radiation protection metrology, as the sensitivity in terms of counts per unit absorbed dose in these devices increases as the square of the counter diameter.
(12) Cellular response relationships, termed hit-size effectiveness functions, can also be applied directly in radiation protection metrology by incorporating them into the software used to process the readings of microdosimetric spectrometers.
(13) This review emphasizes the fundamental metrological aspects of reference methods and reference measurement technology.
(14) Construction of a rating scale is a difficult task which implies a series of approximations to obtain, from an initial collection of items, satisfactory metrologic qualities.
(15) In the first part, the scope and potential limitations of this branch of metrology are presented.
(16) A device for ECG signal reproduction and transfer (a generator) is made, with its structural diagram, work principles and main technological (metrological) characteristics shown.
(17) Characteristics of latex suspensions are studied in order to estimate their potential metrologic application.
(18) In dosimetric approach to the hygienic norm setting of radio waves adequate metrological basis is required.
(19) The scanning probe microscope has found applications in metrology, spectroscopy, and lithography.
(20) Main principals of metrology of measurement being conducted in research studies and in practice of ophthalmologists are stated.