UNMEASURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unmeasured mean? 

• UNMEASURED (adjective)
  The adjective UNMEASURED has 2 senses:

1. not composed of measured syllables; not metrical

2. without limits in extent or size or quantity

  Familiarity information: UNMEASURED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNMEASURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not composed of measured syllables; not metrical

Context example:

unmeasured prose

Similar:

unrhythmic; unrhythmical (not rhythmic; irregular in beat or accent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without limits in extent or size or quantity

Synonyms:

illimitable; limitless; measureless; unmeasured

Context example:

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Similar:

immeasurable; immensurable; unmeasurable (impossible to measure)

 Context examples 

A computed estimate of the unmeasured anions (those other than the chloride and bicarbonate anions) in a biological specimen.

(Anion Gap Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Among the most significant: a previously unmeasured acceleration of glacier flow into Antarctica’s Getz Ice Shelf, on the southwestern part of the continent — likely a result of ice-shelf thinning.

(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)