Metrology Definition

Metrology Sentence Examples

• A constant difficulty in studying works on metrology is the need of distinguishing the absolute facts of the case from the web of theory into which each writer has woven them -- often the names used, and sometimes the very existence of the units in question, being entirely an assumption of the writer.

• And coins have long been recognized as one of the great sources of metrology -- valuable for their wide and detailed range of information, though most unsatisfactory on account of the constant temptation to diminish their weight, a weakness which seldom allows us to reckon them as of the full standard.

• As the technology is developed, new metrology, or measurement, tools are also required.

• Buildings will generally yield up their builder's foot or cubit when examined (Inductive Metrology, p. 9).

• He was also much interested in ancient weights and measures, and in 1875 published a work on Inductive Metrology.