"making measurements" is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the process of measuring something. For example, "Scientists must be careful when making measurements to ensure that they are accurate."
A measuring instrument is a device used for making measurements alone or in conjunction with one or more supplementary devices (measuring system).
The technique, called well logging, involves lowering a small instrument down a drill hole on the end of a wire and making measurements continuously as the wire is played out in measured lengths.
Before making measurements in the present study, X-ray images were read to measure intra- and interexaminer variations.
Here were skilled people passing light over these same stones, still making measurements by light and time".
Researchers will examine the temperatures and other properties of North Atlantic waters along the coast, while also making measurements of the glaciers that reach the ocean.
It's about making measurements, doing the best you can and then usually showing that there is something not quite right about it.
During the close encounter with Pluto, New Horizons will focus on taking photographs and making measurements that should shed light on Pluto's composition and its tenuous atmosphere.
Researchers recently completed an intensive study of levees and wetlands along the Louisiana coast, making measurements with three advanced imaging instruments mounted on a Nasa research aircraft.
It is an evocative reminder that cosmology, too, is now a true observational, experimental science, securely grounded in the messy practical realities of making measurements.
"I think this is just the beginning of the story, and before governments and the industry push ahead on gas development, at the very least we ought to do a better job of making measurements".
The first case involves making measurements in the networks while the applications under analysis are actually being implemented.
