Lockheed officials said the computer would be used for the test and measurement of things like jet aircraft designs, or the reliability of satellite systems.
"These results, which may appear to be unusual and interesting, may simply indicate problems with the data collection and not the measurement of things that are actually going on," Mr. Kober said.
The hands are able to grasp, and the fingers, toes, hands, and feet, may be utilized for the quantification and measurement of things, events, and qualities.
Measurement is often considered a hallmark of the scientific enterprise and a privileged source of knowledge relative to qualitative modes of inquiry.[1] Despite its ubiquity and importance, there is little consensus among philosophers as to how to define measurement, what sorts of things are measurable, or which conditions make measurement possible.
The stock market is not the collective conscience and soul of the nation, and should not be used as a measurement of all things wise and wonderful.
The astonishing thing about this particular sort of sampling is that very simple measurements of just two things – temperature and salinity – are enough to reveal gigantic rivers, waterfalls and lakes hidden within the ocean.
You must take multiple measurements of the same thing under the same conditions to calculate precision.
As Ken Alder relates in a new book called "The Measure of All Things" (Free Press; $27), French citizens of that era employed thousands of confusingly inconsistent measurement units.
The danger, of course, is that in a world which relies on justification and measurement of everything, those things that are most easily justified and measured will get priority over those things which are, in fact, most justified and important.
It seems clear that quantum mechanics is fundamentally about atoms and electrons, quarks and strings, not those particular macroscopic regularities associated with what we call measurements of the properties of these things.
