A unit or standard of → measurement;
the act or process of ascertaining the extent, dimensions, or quantity of
something; measurement; the quantity obtained by such a process.
To use standard units to determine the magnitude, extent, size, etc. of something.
The quantity obtained by such a process.
Etymology (EN): From O.Fr. mesurer, from L.L. mensurare “to measure,” from
L. mensura “a measuring, a thing to measure by,” from mensus, p.p. of
metiri “to measure,” → meter.
Etymology (PE): 1) Andâzé “measure,” from Mid.Pers. andâzag, handâcak “measure,”
handâxtan, handâz- “to measure,”
Manichean Mid.Pers. hnds- “to measure,” Proto-Iranian *hamdas-, from
ham-, → com-, + *das- “to heap, amass;” cf.
Ossetic dasun/dast “to heap up;”
Arm. loanword dasel “to arrange (a crowd, people),” das “order, arrangement.”
2) Andâzé gereftan, compound verb, literally “to take measure,” from
andâzé, as above, +
gereftan “to take, seize” (Mid.Pers. griftan;
Av./O.Pers. grab- “to take, seize;” cf.
Skt. grah-, grabh- “to seize, take,” graha
“seizing, holding, perceiving;” M.L.G. grabben “to grab;”
from P.Gmc. *grab; E. grab “to take or grasp suddenly;”
PIE base *ghrebh- “to seize”).
