scale of measurement

Questions about scale of measurement

What does scale of measurement mean?

scale of measurement means "an ordered reference standard".

What is another word for scale of measurement?

Close synonyms include scale, graduated table, ordered series. 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 scale of measurement a common word?

scale of measurement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.