Measure

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Measure may refer to:

Legal

• Measure of the Church of England is a law passed by the General Synod and the UK Parliament equivalent of an Act
• Measure of the National Assembly for Wales, a law specific to Wales passed by the Welsh Assembly between 2007 and 2011
• Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)

Mathematics and science

• Measure (probability), a mathematical construct that models a real-world experiment
• Measure (mathematics), a way to assign non-negative real numbers to subsets
  • Metric (mathematics), a formal rule to assess a relationship of entities
• Measuring coalgebra, a coalgebra constructed from two algebras
• Measure (physics), a way to integrate over all possible histories of a system in quantum field theory

Units

• Measurement, the process of establishing the magnitude of some attribute of an object relative to some unit of measurement
• Bar (music) or measure, a unit of time in Western music representing a regular grouping of beats
• Coal measure is a seam of coal
• Measure (termination), a way to describe termination of processes, algorithms, or functions
• Measure (bartending) or jigger, a bartending tool used to measure liquor

Other

• Measure (data warehouse), a property on which calculations can be made using precomputed aggregates
• Measure (typography), in typography refers to the width of a block or column of text from the left margin to the right margin
• Countermeasure, a system designed to prevent weapons from acquiring and/or destroying a target
• Measure (album), a 2000 album from Matt Pond PA

See also

• Quantity