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Noun
S: (n) test, mental test, mental testing, psychometric test (any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc) "the test was standardized on a large sample of students"
S: (n) test, mental test, mental testing, psychometric test (any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc) "the test was standardized on a large sample of students"
S: (n) measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule) "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"
S: (n) seismography (the measurement of tremors and shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes)
S: (n) anthropometry (measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities)
S: (n) arterial blood gases (measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood; important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases)
S: (n) pelvimetry (measurement of the dimensions of the bony birth canal (to determine whether vaginal birth is possible))
S: (n) photometry (measurement of the properties of light (especially luminous intensity))
S: (n) quantification (the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something)
S: (n) radioactive dating (measurement of the amount of radioactive material (usually carbon 14) that an object contains; can be used to estimate the age of the object)
S: (n) reading, meter reading (the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments) "he has a job meter reading for the gas company"
S: (n) sampling (measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form))
S: (n) sounding (the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line))
S: (n) sound ranging (locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions)
S: (n) scaling (act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale)
S: (n) spirometry (the use of a spirometer to measure vital capacity)
S: (n) surveying (the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map) "he studied surveying at college"
S: (n) telemetry (automatic transmission and measurement of data from remote sources by wire or radio or other means)
S: (n) thermogravimetry (the measurement of changes in weight as a function of changes in temperature used as a technique of chemically analyzing substances)
S: (n) tonometry (the measurement of intraocular pressure by determining the amount of force needed to make a slight indentation in the cornea)