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measurable, a.|ˈmɛʒ(j)ʊərəb(ə)l|
Also 4–6 mes-.
[a. F. mesurable:—late L. mensūrābilis, f. mensūrāre to measure. In sense 3 directly f. the Eng. vb.]
†1. Of persons, their actions, etc.: Characterized by moderation; moderate, temperate; occas. modest.
13..K. Alis. 7050 They beon treowe, and steodefast, Mesureabele, bonére, and chest. c1386Chaucer Prol. 435 Of his diete mesurable was he. ― Pars. T. ⁋862 A wyf sholde eek be mesurable in lokinge and in beringe and in laughinge. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 67 Curteys of language, in spendyng mesurable. 1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) F vj, Follow his [Christ's] sober & measurable mother. 1595Southwell Tri. Death (1596) 6 Of feeding shee was very measurable, rather too sparing, than too liberall a diet. 1608T. James Apol. Wyclif 35 Abstinence with prudence was needeful, that is..measureable fasting, both of bodie and soule.
2. Of moderate size, dimensions, quantity, duration, or speed. Obs. exc. as implied in 3.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxviii. 7 Lo mesurabils þou sett my dayes. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 241 Þat laborers and louh folk taken of heore Maystres, Nis no Maner Meede bote Mesurable huyre. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 22613, I sawgh oon..Goon a mesurable paas. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 413 The Kynge..assembled a mesurable hoost of people. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII, 3 b, Luke warme drynke, temperate heate, and measurable clothes. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits iii. (1596) 28 The braine should be tempered with measurable heat.
3. That can be measured; susceptible of measurement or computation; of such dimensions as to admit of being measured; spec. (of rainfall) not less than 1/100 inch.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 273 Any measurable wares. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xvi. §8 Number..is that which the Mind makes use of, in measuring all things that by us are measurable. 1780Marsham in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 451 The annual increase of very old trees is hardly measurable with a string. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vii. x, The fire of Insurrection gets damped..into measurable, manageable heat. 1876J. S. Bristowe Theory & Pract. Med. (1878) 480 The descent of the diaphragm..causes measurable enlargement of the upper region of the abdomen. 1893Times 4 May 10/4 A measurable quantity of rain fell over the western parts of England.
b. Phrase, to come within a measurable distance of (some undesirable condition or event).
1890Guardian 19 Nov. 1825/1 Reckless dealing in South American securities brought them..within measurable distance of bankruptcy.
c. Math. (See measure v. 7 b.)
1667Phil. Trans. II. 572 A Multiplex of the Product or least Dividend measurable by those Divisors.
†4. Characterized by due measure or proportion.
1563Homilies ii. Coming down of Holy Ghost i. (1859) 458 All which gifts..are..given to man according to the measurable distribution of the Holy Ghost.
†b. Proportionate to. Obs. rare— 1.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 40 b, The dyner moderate, and the drynke therunto mesurable, according to the drynesse or moystnesse of the meate.
†5. Measured, uniform in movement; metrical, rhythmical. Obs.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 30 b, To daunce with framed gestures, and with measurable pases. 1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 22 The force of this measurable or tunable speaking. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 435 The graue behauior, the measurable march, the pompe and ostentation of women dancers.
b. Mus. = mensurable.
1614Ravenscroft Brief Discourse 1 The Definitions and Diuisions of Moode, Time, and Prolation in Measurable Musick. [1879Helmore Plain-Song 11 Portions of Plain-Song often fall into strictly measurable forms.]
†6. as adv. Moderately. Obs.
1542in Hodgson Hist. Northumbld. (1828) iii. II. 214 note, A lytle town in measurable good reparacions. 1551Turner Herbal i. K v, The leues are..mesurable roughe.
Add:[3.] d. Math. [ad. F. mesurable (E. Borel Leçons sur la Théorie des Fonctions (1898) iii. 46).] Of a set: having a defined measure (*measure n. 2 g). Of a real-valued function f: such that for any real number a the set of all x for which f(x) > a is measurable.
1905Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. CCIV. 243 Let the fundamental set be divided into measurable components in any conceivable way, and let the content of each component be multiplied by the upper (lower) limit of the values of the function at points of that component, and the sum of all such products be formed; then the outer (inner) measure of the integral is defined to be the lower (upper) limit of all such summations. 1906W. H. & G. C. Young Theory of Sets of Points xii. 260 The points at which X(x) ≥ k form a measurable set. 1968P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory iv. 199 From now on we choose a definite σ-field of sets, B, in the space R and since we shall later associate with it a σ-additive measure, we call a set ‘measurable’ if and only if it belongs to the σ-field B. 1986Nonlinear Analysis X. 1160 C(·) is a measurable, closed-valued multifunction from [ a-∇, a] to ℜn . |