Usually means: Quantitative assessment of object properties.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. measure: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. measure, measure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. measure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. measure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. measure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Measure, measure: Wordnik
  7. measure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. measure: Wiktionary
  9. measure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. measure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. measure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Measure, measure: Dictionary.com
  13. measure (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. measure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Measure (Apple), Measure (bartending), Measure (data warehouse), Measure (journal), Measure (mathematics), Measure (music), Measure (physics), Measure (typography), Measure, The Measure (SA): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Measure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. measure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. measure: Rhymezone
  19. measure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. measure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Measure: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. measure: Free Dictionary
  23. measure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. measure: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. measure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  4. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  5. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  6. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  7. MEASURE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS
  8. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Derivatives (No longer online)
  2. measure: Glossary of research economics
  3. Measure: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Measure (mathematics), measure: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. measure: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Measure (mathematics), Measure (probability), measure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. measure: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MEASURE: Acronym Finder
  2. measure: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Measure: Easton Bible

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Measure: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. measure: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. measure, measure: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. measure: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. measure: The Folk File

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See measurability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A prescribed quantity or extent.
noun:  (obsolete) Moderation, temperance.
noun:  A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
noun:  An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
noun:  The act or result of measuring.
noun:  (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
noun:  A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
noun:  Any of various standard units of capacity.
noun:  A unit of measurement.
noun:  The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
noun:  (now rare) The act or process of measuring.
noun:  A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
noun:  (geology) A bed or stratum.
noun:  (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.
noun:  (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
noun:  Metrical rhythm.
noun:  (now archaic) A melody.
noun:  (now archaic) A dance.
noun:  (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
noun:  (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
noun:  A course of action.
noun:  (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
noun:  A piece of legislation.
verb:  To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
verb:  (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
verb:  To estimate the unit size of something.
verb:  To judge, value, or appraise.
verb:  To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
verb:  (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
verb:  To adjust by a rule or standard.
verb:  (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
verb:  (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.

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