MEASURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does measured mean? 

• MEASURED (adjective)
  The adjective MEASURED has 4 senses:

1. having notes of fixed rhythmic value

2. the rhythmic arrangement of syllables

3. carefully thought out in advance

4. unhurried and with care and dignity

  Familiarity information: MEASURED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEASURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having notes of fixed rhythmic value

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

measured; mensurable; mensural

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The rhythmic arrangement of syllables

Synonyms:

measured; metric; metrical

Similar:

rhythmic; rhythmical (recurring with measured regularity)

Domain category:

metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Carefully thought out in advance

Synonyms:

calculated; deliberate; measured

Context example:

he made a deliberate decision not to respond negatively

Similar:

intended (resulting from one's intentions)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Unhurried and with care and dignity

Synonyms:

careful; deliberate; measured

Context example:

with all deliberate speed

Similar:

unhurried (relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste)

 Context examples 

A medication delivered as a mist to be inhaled through the nose as a measured dose

(Nasal Inhaler Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

MistNet can "automate the processing of a massive dataset that has measured bird migration over the continental U.S. for over two decades," says Sheldon, who says this is a really important advance.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

A unit of concentration of amount of substance measured as the number of moles of solute per liter of mixture.

(Molarity Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

The study resulted in around 85 million protein targets being measured.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)

The observed particles traveled up to 10 feet (3 meters) per second, and measured from smaller than an inch up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) in size.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

Biological oceanographer Jennifer Brandon found some of the tiniest microplastics in seawater at much higher concentrations than previously measured.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

The production of small, stable particles whose size is measured in nanometers.

(Nanoparticle Production, NCI Thesaurus)

This research has tracked and measured the visual behavior of people going about their everyday tasks, providing more natural responses than if they were in a lab.

(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is one of the most extreme of the systems for which the mass and spin rate have ever been measured.

(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)

Magnetic conditions within the material are measured by monitoring the radiation absorbed and emitted by the atomic nuclei.

(Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, NCI Thesaurus)