Phrase Hound found 53 phrases and 15 compound words that contain measures. The most common are listed below. Open measures in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 53
- Security measures
- special measuresExternal administration for a failing public service such as a school or hospital.
- weights and measuresThe science and regulation of standards for the quantification of size, weight, temperature, etc.
- active measuresPolitical warfare conducted by the Soviet or Russian government since the 1920s to advance foreign policy, including espionage, propaganda, sabotage, and assassination.
- half measuresplural of half measure: An inadequate or incomplete solution to a problem.
- measures of locationplural of measure of location: A single number used to characterize a batch, sample, or distribution or the position of an element of it.
- measures upthird-person singular simple present indicative of measure up: To meet expectations; to be as good as.
- probability measuresplural of probability measure: A 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.
- desperate times call for desperate measuresIn adverse circumstances, actions that might have been rejected under other circumstances may become the best choice.
- complete measuresplural of complete measure: A 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 measuresplural of complex measure: A function whose domain is a σ-algebra, whose codomain is the set of complex numbers, and which is countably additive.
- measures offthird-person singular simple present indicative of measure off: To measure something (such as wood, fabric etc), prior to marking or cutting it
- measures outthird-person singular simple present indicative of measure out: To measure an amount or quantity or size that is needed or wanted, to mark the dimensions of something.
- positive measuresplural of positive measure: A function whose domain is a σ-algebra, whose codomain is [0,∞], and which is countably additive.
- weight measuresplural of weight measure: A measure or unit to express an object's weight, which is directly proportional to its mass when the gravity is fixed (as commonly but imprecisely presumed on earth's surface.)
- dry measuresplural of dry measure: A unit of volume used in measuring dry commodities (e.g. grain or fruit).
- tape measuresplural of tape measure: A graduated flexible ribbon used for measuring lengths.
- measures strengththird-person singular simple present indicative of measure strength: To engage in a contest.
- kept measuressimple past and past participle of keep measures
- keeping measurespresent participle and gerund of keep measures
- Radon measuresplural of Radon measure: A measure on the σ-algebra of Borel sets of a Hausdorff space that is locally finite and inner regular.
- measures of central tendencyplural of measure of central tendency: A measure of location for a batch, a sample, or a distribution characterizing a value around which are spread the members or the distribution.
- liquid measuresplural of liquid measure: Any unit of measure for measuring the volume of a liquid.
- do by half-measuresAlternative form of do by halves: To perform (a task, etc) partially or incompletely; to do (something) inadequately, halfheartedly, or shoddily.
- strike measuresplural of strike measure: The practice of supplying goods (such as rice or coal) by filling a container and then removing any material that protrudes above the top, leaving it level rather than heaped.
Compound words 15
- countermeasuresplural of countermeasure: Any action taken to counteract or correct another.
- semimeasuresplural of semimeasure: A function that assigns a non-negative number to each element of a set that is subadditive.
- biomeasuresplural of biomeasure: A biological measure
- commeasuresthird-person singular simple present indicative of commeasure: To be commensurate with; to equal.
- hypermeasuresplural of hypermeasure: A unit in which each regular measure is one beat (actually hyperbeat) of a larger meter.
- mismeasuresthird-person singular simple present indicative of mismeasure: To measure incorrectly or inaccurately.
- outmeasuresthird-person singular simple present indicative of outmeasure: To exceed in quantity or extent.
- overmeasuresplural of overmeasure: To measure or estimate with a result that is larger than it should be.
- premeasuresthird-person singular simple present indicative of premeasure: To measure in advance.
- pseudomeasuresplural of pseudomeasure: A distribution that can be extended to a continuous functional.