Measure in a sentence

The measure that we look at which really is an eye-popping measure is the Fed’s own measure of household net worth.

Why measure distances with a tape measure when you can measure them with a laser?

Analogously, a set in a measure space is said to have a σ-finite measure if it is a countable union of sets with finite measure.

Any non-complete measure can be completed to form a complete measure by asserting that subsets of null sets have measure zero.

Early in 1928, a second measure, the Prayer Book Measure 1928, was introduced in the Church Assembly proposing to authorise the use of the "Deposited Book" with certain amendments which were set out in a schedule to the Measure.

F-score / F-measure main The weighted harmonic mean of precision and recall, the traditional F-measure or balanced F-score is: : This is also known as the measure, because recall and precision are evenly weighted.

Generalizing this method, one can construct in the unit interval nowhere dense sets of any measure less than 1, although the measure cannot be exactly one (else its complement would be a nonempty open set with measure zero, which is impossible).

Irrationality measure The irrationality measure (or irrationality exponent or approximation exponent or Liouville–Roth constant) of a real number x is a measure of how "closely" it can be approximated by rationals.

Length is a measure of one dimension, whereas area is a measure of two dimensions (length squared) and volume is a measure of three dimensions (length cubed).

The reference face can be open to atmosphere to measure gauge pressure, open to a second port to measure differential pressure, or can be sealed against a vacuum or other fixed reference pressure to measure absolute pressure.

The use of the word measure, in the sense of a measuring instrument, only survives in the phrase tape measure, an instrument that can be used to measure but cannot be used to draw straight lines.

Alderman Ryan McCready said: “I endorse and approve the temporary measure and if that temporary measure is good for us with good revenue, and is better than a café that would be in there, then it’s about thinking beyond that.

In one measure, council approved a measure which would allow the region to enter into an agreement with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. which will see new funding arrive from the federal government for affordable housing.

Park said Measure W, passed just a year after Measure H and also with 69 percent of the vote, could be a model.

Shortly after the measure was filed Friday night, Democrats pushed the measure through the Illinois House over Republican objections.

The proposed technology will not only measure the ambient light in the surrounding environment but also measure things like the "blink rate, pupil size, and eye openness" to adjust the headset brightness accordingly.

The taxpayers association, which opposed Measure B, expressed concern during the campaign that the measure guaranteed city workers would continue handling all aspects of trash service.

While we strongly believe ARR is the best measure of our normalized growth rate is a key measure.

A coalition of large nonprofits, homeless service providers and labor unions is now backing a measure that would replace Measure H two years before it expires and raise the tax rate to a half cent per dollar.

A downside for the measure in the survey results is that as the election draws near, voters who haven’t been sold on a measure are more likely to vote no.