measurement

Other forms of measurement

plural

measurements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about measurement

What does measurement mean?

measurement means "the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule".

How many syllables are in measurement?

measurement has 3 syllables: measur-e-ment. The stress falls on "measur". In IPA it is /ˈmɛʒɚmənt/.

What is another word for measurement?

Close synonyms include measuring, measure, mensuration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is measurement a common word?

measurement is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.