system of measurement

Questions about system of measurement

What does system of measurement mean?

system of measurement means "a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic".

What is another word for system of measurement?

Close synonyms include metric. 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 system of measurement a common word?

system 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.