The phrase "measuring rod" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a tool or device used for measuring length or distance, typically a long, thin rod that is marked with units of measurement. Example: The carpenter used a measuring rod to ensure that the shelf was exactly 3 feet long.
Another equally important reason why power over the measuring rod of money translates into real world power is the fact that money itself is such a power.
This view worked well as an answer to the neo-Kantian, for it implied that once one fixed one's coordinating definition as with a conventional choice of a standard measuring rod coordinated with the geometer's concept of a "rigid body"—the question of the curvature of space had an empirically determinate answer.
Attempts at using quartz-on-quartz (i.e., the measuring rod against the vial, without a sample) experimental data to establish a baseline, resulted in completely different LVDT plots that were not suitable for the baseline subtraction; because a sample's heat capacity and the ability to absorb irradiative power change thermodynamics of the process.
Patients were asked to recall their height but if unable to, were measured by the admitting nurse using a wall mounted measuring rod.
Objective measures of weight (1 measure using SECA electronic floor scales) and height (1 measure using SECA 240 wall mounted measuring rod) were used to calculate body mass index (BMI).
MP-1 scotopic microperimetry (MP-1S) is the modified version of the MP-1 (Nidek Technologies, Italy, 2002), with all the original functions plus the possibility of measuring rod sensitivity following dark adaptation.
He proposed to account for the puzzling outcomes of the experiments described above by means of a theory of the systematic and lawlike "malfunctioning" of clocks and measuring rods that are in motion with respect to absolute space.
Offset amounts were measured using tape measures and measuring rods in the field.
From this enlightened perspective, measuring rods and clocks are objects that are far too complicated.
Demography is a rather precise discipline, too: its measuring rods are counts of births and deaths, marriages and divorces.
Any purely conventional stipulation regarding the behavior of measuring rods as physically constitutive of metrical relations in general relativity is then otiose (Weyl, 1923a; Ehlers, Pirani and Schild 1973).
