valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate, estimation; dead
reckoning, reckoning &c (numeration) 85; gauging &c v.; horse power.
metrology, weights and measures, compound arithmetic.
measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass,
calipers; gage, gauge; meter, line, rod, check; dividers; velo†.
flood mark, high water mark; Plimsoll line; index &c 550.
scale; graduation, graduated scale; nonius†; vernier &c
(minuteness) 193.
[instruments for measuring] bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer,
interferometer, odometer, ombrometer†, pantometer†, pluviometer†,
pneumatometer†, pneumometer†, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer,
rheometer, spirometer†, telemeter, udometer†, vacuometer†, variometer†,
viameter†, thermometer, thermistor (heat) &c 382, barometer (air) &c
338, anemometer (wind) 349, dynamometer, goniometer, (angle) 244 meter;
landmark &c (limit) 233; balance, scale &c (weight) 319; marigraph†,
pneumatograph†, stethograph†; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter (volts),
ammeter (amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass
spectrophotometer (molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation
counter (radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated
cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar
(distance); side-looking radar, (shape, topography); sonar (depth in
water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch,
chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color
intensity).
measurability, computability, determinability†.
coordinates, ordinate and abscissa, polar coordinates, latitude
and longitude, declination and right ascension, altitude and azimuth.
geometry, stereometry†, hypsometry†; metage†; surveying, land
surveying; geodesy, geodetics†, geodesia†; orthometry†, altimetry†;
cadastre [Fr.].
astrolabe, armillary sphere†.
land surveyor; geometer.
V. measure, mete; determine, assay; evaluate, value, assess, rate,
appraise, estimate, form an estimate, set a value on; appreciate;
standardize.
span, pace step; apply the compass &c n.; gauge, plumb, probe,
sound, fathom; heave the log, heave the lead; survey.
weigh.
take an average &c 29; graduate.
Adj. measuring &c v.; metric, metrical; measurable, perceptible,
noticeable, detectable, appreciable, ponderable, determinable,
fathomable; geodetical, topographic, topographical, cartographic,
cartographical.
SECTION III.
MATERIALS FOR REASONING
Evidence for, against, and in mitigation