Sentence examples for Standard of measurement from inspiring English sources

Standard of measurement across the hospitals was checked by placing a standard weight in the scale used to measure the newborn weight in all the hospitals; there was no significant difference observed in the five hospitals selected for this study.

The house is dominated by one large room that measures 25 tatami, a traditional standard of measurement based on the size of a Japanese mat, or 444 square feet.

By taking the posttest and thentest in close succession, it is assumed that these measures will be completed with respect to the same internal standard of measurement.

He pushes scientists to use the same terminology (even, occasionally, the same language), and to use the same metric standard of measurement.

"You can't apply a global standard of measurement to consumers," Mr. Daft says, "because it reduces everything to the lowest common denominator".

Rootless though rooted in her seat, Xie, the only constant in a changing landscape, is chagrined to find that she is also its only standard of measurement: "Me?

Although there is evidence that many early civilizations devised standards of measurement and some tools for measuring, the Egyptian cubit is generally recognized as having been the most ubiquitous standard of linear measurement in the ancient world.

Which they were, in 1958, by any standards of measurement.

Hell, I've already completed three Acts of Feminism today (going by current standards of measurement) – and that was before breakfast.

The situation in Sparta is far murkier, with dueling scientific reports about the presence of tremolite fibers, debate about conflicting state and federal standards of measurement, and different attitudes among newcomers and old-timers here.

Since 1887 many national standards laboratories have been founded to set up and maintain standards of measurement, both for the six basic quantities and for their systematic derivatives.