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Standard of measurement   /stˈændərd əv mˈɛʒərmənt/   Listen
Standard of measurement

noun
1.
Accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared.  Synonym: gauge.






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"Standard of measurement" Quotes from Famous Books



... cultivated if we will—that is, if we desire and insist on its growth. As a child's taste for art or learning can be educated into high capabilities for the future, so can the human Soul be educated into so high, so supreme an attainment, that no merely mortal standard of measurement can reach its magnificence. With much more than half the inhabitants of the globe, this germ of immortality remains always a germ, never sprouting, overlaid and weighted down by the lymphatic laziness and materialistic propensities ...
— A Romance of Two Worlds • Marie Corelli



Words linked to "Standard of measurement" :   criterion, touchstone, standard, gauge, measure



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