admeasurement

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But a close admeasurement of the distance will disprove the Norwich theory. 

From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

The middle term for the rest of France is about nine hundred inhabitants to the same admeasurement.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

The admeasurement of the island, however inaccurate, is from the best authorities of those times, and followed by much later historians.

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)

Aggregate admeasurement of six Aggregate admeasurement of six dug up and replanted.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie