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Measure

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Measure may refer to:

  • Measurement, the assignment of a number to a characteristic of an object or event

Law

  • Ballot measure, proposed legislation in the United States
  • Church of England Measure, legislation of the Church of England
  • Measure of the National Assembly for Wales, primary legislation in Wales
  • Assembly Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)

Science and mathematics

  • Measure (data warehouse), a property on which calculations can be made
  • Measure (mathematics), a systematic way to assign a number to each suitable subset of that set
  • Measure (physics), a way to integrate over all possible histories of a system in quantum field theory
  • Measure (termination), in computer program termination analysis
  • Measuring coalgebra, a coalgebra constructed from two algebras
  • Measure (Apple), an iOS augmented reality app

Other uses

  • Measure (album), by Matt Pond PA, 2000, and its title track
  • Measure (bartending) or jigger, a bartending tool used to measure liquor
  • Measure (journal), an international journal of formal poetry
  • Measure (music), or bar, in musical notation
  • Measure (typography), line length in characters per line
  • Coal measures, the coal-bearing part of the Upper Carboniferous System
  • The Measure (SA), an American punk rock band
  • Bar (Music), a time segment in musical notation

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Measure
  • All pages with titles containing Measure
  • Countermeasure, a measure or action taken to counter or offset another one
  • Quantity, a property that can exist as a multitude or magnitude
  • Measure for Measure, a play by William Shakespeare
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