standard of measurement

1. 1.

   accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared

   Synonymsgauge

   Broaderstandard

Questions about standard of measurement

What does standard of measurement mean?

standard of measurement means "accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared".

What is another word for standard of measurement?

Close synonyms include gauge. 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 standard of measurement a common word?

standard 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.