admeasurementとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

admeasurement (countable and uncountable, plural admeasurements)

1. Apportionment.
   • 1781, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query I

     By admeasurements through nearly the whole of this last line, and supplying the unmeasured parts from good data, the Atlantic and Mississipi are found in this latitude to be 758 miles distant, equal to 13° 38′ of longitude, reckoning 55 miles and 3144 feet to the degree.

2. Measurement, the act of measuring.
   • 1815, William Henry, The Elements of Experimental Chemistry, volume 1, page 20:

     Though the figures are similar, their angles, on admeasurement by a nice instrument, differ very appreciably.