Phrase Hound found 66 phrases and 27 compound words that contain measure. The most common are listed below. Open measure in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 66
- made-to-measureDesigned and made to individual specifications. (usually of men's clothing)
- tape measureA graduated flexible ribbon used for measuring lengths.
- unit of measureAny standardized, reproducible unit that can be used to measure any physical property.
- measure upTo meet expectations; to be as good as.
- measure wordA word or morpheme used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns, used especially in Asian languages.
- beyond measureVery large; great; huge.
- Good Measure
- for good measureIn excess of the minimum required; added as an extra.
- half-measureAn inadequate or incomplete solution to a problem.
- measure theoryA branch of mathematical analysis, concerned with the theory of integration, that generalizes the intuitive notions of length, area and volume.
- units of measureplural of unit of measure: Any standardized, reproducible unit that can be used to measure any physical property.
- dry measureA unit of volume used in measuring dry commodities (e.g. grain or fruit).
- probability measureA mathematical measure on a probability space that can take on values between 0 and 1, with 0 corresponding to the empty set and 1 to the entire space.
- measure outTo measure an amount or quantity or size that is needed or wanted, to mark the dimensions of something.
- measure of locationA single number used to characterize a batch, sample, or distribution or the position of an element of it.
- complete measureA measure such that, for every set of measure zero belonging to its domain, all subsets of that set are also assigned measure zero by the given measure.
- complex measureA function whose domain is a σ-algebra, whose codomain is the set of complex numbers, and which is countably additive.
- long measureSynonym of long meter: A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of iambic tetrameter, usually having rhyme in the second and fourth lines.
- measure spaceA measurable space which has a positive measure defined on its σ-algebra.
- measure wordsplural of measure word: A word or morpheme used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns, used especially in Asian languages.
- positive measureA function whose domain is a σ-algebra, whose codomain is [0,∞], and which is countably additive.
- counting measureA positive measure which, for each subset of a given measure space, assigns a value equal to the number of points in that subset.
- last full measureA person's life, when lost through death in service to a nation or cause, particularly as a member of a military force in war or a semi-militarized organization such as a police force or civil defense corps, e.g. fire departments. May also …
- outer measureA measure-like function derived from some premeasure as follows: when it is applied to a set E, it yields the infimum of the premeasures of all possible premeasurable covers of E. More abstractly, a measure-like function whose domain is …
- the measure of a manThat which shows the value of a person's life; one's non-monetary worth
Compound words 27
- measurableAble to be measured.
- quasimeasureA nonnegative increasing semiadditive set function defined on a ring of sets that is continuous above the origin and takes its values in the extended domain of real numbers.
- commeasureTo be commensurate with; to equal.
- outmeasureTo exceed in quantity or extent.
- pseudomeasureA distribution that can be extended to a continuous functional.
- semimeasureA function that assigns a non-negative number to each element of a set that is subadditive.
- biomeasureA biological measure
- hypermeasureA unit in which each regular measure is one beat (actually hyperbeat) of a larger meter.
- measurageA toll or duty based on the volume of a material; or, the right to collect such a toll or duty.
- measurebateTo focus excessively on technical specifications (of a camera or other electronic device).