Definition:Measurable Property/Measurement

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This page is about Measurement in the context of Applied Mathematics. For other uses, see Measure.

Definition

Measurement is the process of determining the quantity of a measurable property.

A measurement is reported as a (real) number multiplied by a unit of measurement for that quantity.


Also known as

A measurement of a quantity can also be referred to as a measure of it, but the term measure has a specialised meaning in the context of measure theory.


Also see

  • Results about measurement can be found here.


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