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Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.

An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like. False ells and measures be brought all clean adown. R. of Gloucester.

d to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured. -- Measuring worm (Zoöl.), the larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.

Capable of being measured; measurable.

A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.

An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. -- W, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water…

ces are determined by the number of screw revolutions necessary to bring the points to be measured into optical coincidence. When the two images are formed by a bisected objects glass, it is called a divided-object-glass micrometer, and when the instrument is large and equatorially mounted, it is known as a heliometer.…

Measured; -- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.

That by which a thing is to be measured; standard. He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model. South.

A little; a small quantity; a measured simply. "Modicums of wit." Shak. Her usual modicum of beer and punch. Thackeray.

A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn. Mighty monoceroses with immeasured tails. Spenser.

Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to Ant: southing.

Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical. [Obs.] Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips, in prose or numerous verse. Milton. -- Nu"mer*ous*ly, adv. -- Nu"mer*ous*ness, n.

o do or forbear something. The obliging power of the law is neither founded in, nor to be measured by, the rewards and punishments annexed to it. South. Religion obliges men to the practice of those virtues which conduce to the preservation of our health. Tillotson.

In a manner measured by an odd number.

A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.

The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.

Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.

ment or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.

The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.