admeasurement

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In the reign of Henry V. the trade had become of such importance that a special Act was passed providing for the admeasurement of ships and barges employed in the coal trade.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

Of the former there can be no admeasurement, excepting by its effect, which is recollection: its duration can be well ascertained.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John

Of course, he had some principle of guessing; and this lay in mere observation and admeasurement of the astuteness of his opponents.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel

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