longimetry

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noun

The measurement of length.

OriginLatin longimetria →
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Meanings

nounlongimetry (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe measurement of length.

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    1715, George Cheyne, “The Proofs for the Being of a God, Arising from the Contemplation of the Humane Structure”, in Philosophical Principles of Religion: Natural and Revealed: […] Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion. Part I. […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XLV, page 350

Origin

  1. Latinlongimetria
  2. Englishlongimetry

From Latin longimetria, from longus (“long”) + -metria (“measurement”).

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APA

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