standard of measurement
- noun
- /ˈstændərd əv ˈmɛʒərmənt/
- Formal
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unidad de medida
- To ensure consistency, we implemented a standard of measurement for evaluating student performance.
Examples
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Washington politicians could use the same standard of measurement used to determine foreign aid to help our own taxpaying citizens damaged by extraordinary acts of nature.
Blog text (14) -
These models were used in order to gather information in line with current standards of measurement from a recognized and valid demographic information collection tool.
Academic text (2005) -
As yet, because of federal funds made available for education, as well as accrediting agencies' need for effective and reliable standards of measurement, assessment provides one of several tools that are necessary for regulation.
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They stress the need for performance-based criteria for such concepts as action information, which can be subjected to the same or similar standards of measurement as objective tests.
Academic text (1991) -
No meaning can be attached to the idea of measuring (i.e., evaluating) a culture by its own standard of measurement; for a measuring rod, it needs hardly be said, cannot be measured by itself.
Academic text (1997) -
Gregory notes the power of the three-by-four rectangle, perhaps only a bit tongue in cheek, by declaring that the "only ... standard of measurement which is common to all nations of the earth" is "the width of a piece of standard theatrical size motion picture film." 13
Academic text (2017) -
Among its guests was the eighteenth-century French scientist and geodesist Charles-Marie de la Condamine, who participated in the Geodesic Field Mission that determined the shape of the Earth and later established the meter as an international standard of measurement.
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The scientists agreed to use the metric system as a standard of measurement for their experiments.
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In architecture, the foot is often used as a standard of measurement for determining dimensions.
Synonyms
∞
1.6
An agreed level of quality or rule for judging something
589
2.1
A fixed amount used to measure or count things
92
2.5
A standard used to compare people or things
68
4.2
A measure used to judge the performance or success of something
17
5.6
A measure people use to judge how good or successful something is
12
3.9
A way to judge how good or successful something is
3
3.2
A fixed amount used as a standard to measure length, weight, or volume
1
2.4
A unit of measurement used in the metric system, like a meter or kilogram
1
3.8
A standard unit used worldwide in science and industry like the meter or kilogram
A standard amount used to measure things like length or weight
A unit used to measure amount or size
A system that gives numbers or levels to show how much of something there is
How Official
- Specialized
1
3.8
- Specialized
- Formal
175
2.8
- Informal
31
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
standard + of + measurement
The meaning 'an accepted unit or reference used as a basis for measuring' is directly and transparently built from 'standard' (an accepted benchmark) combined with 'measurement' (the act of quantifying), with 'of' serving as a simple linker. This straightforward noun-of-noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English modification patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would understand it.
Etymology
The phrase standard of measurement comes from old towns that kept one metal bar as the official length and used it as the standard for rulers. So, a standard of measurement is an agreed 'reference' people use to 'measure' or 'compare' things.