admeasurement

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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knows by actual admeasurement that some of them are much larger than the planet he occupies.

From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.

A special difficulty attended it as to admeasurement: the customary treatment of other holdings could not in this case serve as a standard.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

Blumenbach considered that the most important admeasurement of the skull was derivable from the shape and size of the oval, seen when the skull was viewed from above, looking vertically down upon it.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

The following anatomical admeasurement of one of the best proportioned of our visitors was furnished by the surgeon, Mr. Hugh Bell: Full height Ft. in.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Flinders, Matthew