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metrology|mɛˈtrɒlədʒɪ|
[f. Gr. µέτρο-ν measure + -logy. Cf. F. métrologie.]
1. a. A system or series of measures. b. The science of weights and measures.
1816P. Kelly (title) Metrology; or an exposition of weights and measures. 1821J. Q. Adams Rep. Weights & Meas. 84 The principle of decimal divisions can be applied only with many qualifications to any general system of metrology. Ibid. 85 The French metrology. 1846Grote Greece ii. iv. II. 425 M. Boeckh's recent publication on Metrology. 1878Nature 23 May 110/2 Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie read a paper on inductive metrology, the purpose of which..is to deduce the units of measure employed by ancient peoples from the dimensions of existing remains. 1969Physics Bull. Sept. 365/2 A large proportion of conference participants deprecated the term ‘measurement science’ and the use of the term ‘metrology’ appeared to have a large measure of support. 1971Inside Kenya Today Mar. 29/2 We might have weights manufactured to International Specifications, i.e. to specification of Legal Metrology.
2. The science of poetic metres. rare—1.
1889A. Sidgwick in Jrnl. Educ. Feb. 116.
Hence metroˈlogical a., pertaining or relating to metrology; meˈtrologist, ˈmetrologue, a writer on weights and measures.
1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 206/2 No metrologist has given the Romans credit for seeing that water would do just as well to..adjust standards by, as wine. 1843Grote in Class. Museum (1844) I. 2 The cardinal principle of his metrological reasonings. Ibid. 7 ‘Great Attic talents’, as they are called by Dardanus the ancient Metrologue. 1856Sat. Rev. 8 Nov. 617/1 All sorts of weights and measures, from the cubit of Noah to the metrological standard of John Quincy Adams. 1883Jrnl. Hellenic Studies IV. 340 The metrological analysis of the fathom must consequently entirely exclude the Attic foot. 1889Yale Coll. Obit. Record 491 The American Metrological Society. 1969Physics Bull. Sept. 365/2 A number of speakers considered that would-be metrologists would be better advised to make a broad study in science or engineering at the undergraduate level and specialize in metrology by spending a further year taking a MSc course in this discipline. 1970Daily Tel. 14 May 18 For heaven's sake, exasperated metrologists explain, do try to remember that shop scales do not show the weight of apples; they show the force exercised by the apples in that particular gravitational environment. |