measurableadj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈmɛʒ(ə)rəbl/, U.S.

/ˈmɛʒ(ə)rəb(ə)l/,

/ˈmɛʒərb(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English meserable, Middle English messurable, Middle English mesurabel, Middle English mesurabil, Middle English mesurabile, Middle English mesurabill, Middle English mesurabul, Middle English mesurabulle, Middle English mesurabyll, Middle English mesurabylle, Middle English mesureabele, Middle English–1500s mesurable, 1500s– measurable, 1600s 1800s– measureable; also Scottish pre-1700 mesorable, pre-1700 messurabil, pre-1700 messurabill, pre-1700 mesurabbill, pre-1700 mesurabil, pre-1700 mesurabill, pre-1700 mesurable, pre-1700 mesurabyl, pre-1700 mesurabyll.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mesurable.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mesurable moderate, reasonable, able to be measured (first half of the 12th cent.), and Middle French, French mesurable able to be measured (c1370; c1170 in Old French in sense ‘moderate, measured’) < post-classical Latin mensurabilis able to be measured (Vulgate), moderate, reasonable (early 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin mensūrāre measure v. + -bilis -ble suffix.In sense A. 7 after French mesurable (1898 in this sense: E. Borel Leçons sur la théorie des fonctions iii. 46).

A. adj.

†1. Of a person, action, etc.: characterized by moderation, esp. of diet; moderate, temperate; (occasionally) modest. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > moderateness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective]

evenlya1200

methefully?c1225

renable?1305

reasonablea1325

measurablec1330

skillwisea1340

moderatea1398

temperate1398

meetlya1400

measurablyc1450

rationablec1475

competent1535

midway1573

modest1582

sober1619

medious1657

slack1662

meeverly1819

low key1941

the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective]

simplec1300

measurablec1330

methec1390

murec1390

smallc1405

soleinc1450

timorous1474

modest1561

unbragging1570

unboldened1591

unpresuming1607

bragless1609

unambitious1621

boastless1632

unpompous1656

verecundous1656

sober1659

tender-foreheaded1659

unpragmatical1673

unpretending1681

unpresumptuous1704

unimportant1727

unaspiringa1729

inambitious1729

unassuming1730

unostentatiousa1739

unboastful1744

pretensionless1748

unarrogating1748

uncontending1748

unopinionated1775

unboasting1802

underbearing1802

mousy1812

un-ultra1817

unarrogant1831

low-flying1835

unconceited1838

unpretentious1838

uninflated1861

unvain1863

unbumptious1865

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective]

methelyeOE

i-meteOE

methefulOE

attempre1297

measurablec1330

temprea1340

temperatec1380

temperantc1384

attemperatec1386

attemperelc1386

chastea1400

mannered1435

measureda1450

moderatea1450

well-measuredc1450

attempered1474

modest1548

sober1552

measurely1570

temperable1619

contemperate1647

submissive1753

managed1770

self-contained1838

inexplosive1867

c1330 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Auch.) (1952) 110 Trewe and stedefast, Mesurable [a1425 Linc. Inn Mesureabele], bonour, and chast.

c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 435 Of his diete mesurable was he.

c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale I. 936 A wyf sholde eek be mesurable in lookynge and in berynge and in lawghynge.

c1450 J. Lydgate Dietary (Sloane) 20 in Anglia (1918) 42 184 (MED) Curteys of langage, of fedyng mesurable [L. mensuratus].

?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. ix. sig. I.iiij Folowe his [sc. Christ's] sobre and mesurable mother.

1595 R. Southwell Triumphs over Death (1596) 6 Of feeding shee was very measurable, rather too sparing, than too liberall a diet.

1608 T. James Apol. Wickliffe 35 Abstinence with prudence was needeful, that is..measureable fasting, both of bodie and soule.

†2. Of moderate (or occasionally appropriate or limited) size, dimensions, quantity, duration, speed, etc. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xxxviii. 7 Þou settest myn daies mesurable.

c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. iii. 235 Þat laboreris & louȝ folk taken of here maistris Is no maner of mede but a mesurable hire.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxxviii. 7 Thou sett my dayes mesurabils.

c1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Tiber.) 22613 I sawgh oon..Goon a mesurable paas.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxix^v The kynge..assembled a mesurable hoost of people.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. iii^v Luke warme drynke, temperate heate, & measurable clothes.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits iii. 28 The braine should be tempered with measurable heat.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 10 Her hands little, and in a measurable manner, and fit proportion accompanied with her sweet flesh.

1829 T. Carlyle German Playwrights in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) II. 50 The Germans, who instead of a measurable and sufferable spicing of theatric matter,..have in fact nothing else to live on but that highly unnutritive victual.

†3.

a. Proportionate to. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > that is in due proportion or proportionate > proportionate to

in (also for, of, with) proportiona1393

convenientc1405

affeiring1536

measurable1541

equivalent1575

commensurable1645

commoderate1650

correspondenta1656

commensurate1657

commeasurable1658

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 40 b The dyner moderate, and the drynke therunto mesurable, according to the drynesse or moystnesse of the meate.

b. Characterized by due measure or proportion. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > that is in due proportion or proportionate

reasonable1348

proportionala1398

proportionatea1398

proportionable?a1425

attemperate1485

measured1561

measurable1563

answerable1567

symmetral1660

adequal1678

proportionative1949

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Llll.iv^v All whiche gyftes..are..geuen to man, accordyng to the measurable distribution of the holy ghoste.

1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 83 Muche good appertaineth to those men, which are perfected vnder a measurable comprehension.

a. Capable of being measured; susceptible of measurement, calculation, or computation. Also: of sufficient dimensions to permit measurement; large enough to be measured; (Meteorology, of rainfall) not less than 0.05 mm (formerly 0.01 inch).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > measurable

estimablec1460

measurable1565

dimensive1570

mensurablea1600

quantitive1626

commensurable1654

dimensurable1660

metesome1674

gaugeable1768

quantifiable1868

evaluable1880

dimensionable1884

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > numerable or reckonable

numbrablea1382

numberablea1500

computativea1538

measurable1565

numerable1570

countable1581

accountable1589

computable1610

numerous1638

reckonable1657

summable1718

calculable1742

enumerable1889

scorable1964

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > able to be measured

measurable1893

1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vii. sig. U5 Nor body none is voide of boundes, but all are measurable.

1584 W. Barrett in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 215 Any measurable wares.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. iv. 79 The distance of the Firmament wherein are placed the fixt Starres, is not measurable by mans industrie.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvi. 100 Number..is that which the Mind makes use of, in measuring all things that by us are measurable.

1780 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 451 The annual increase of very old trees is hardly measurable with a string.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. i. vii. x. 394 The fire of Insurrection gets damped,..into measurable, manageable heat.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iv. 477 The descent of the diaphragm..causes measurable enlargement of the upper region of the abdomen.

1893 Times 4 May 10/4 A measurable quantity of rain fell over the western parts of England.

1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) xxxi. 277 Contrast-emphasis may be applied to almost any word, but intensity-emphasis can only be applied to certain words expressing qualities which are measurable.

1997 Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. with Programs 29 vi. a63/2 A reasonable estimate may be made from the mean annual precipitation (MAP) and the number of days per year with measurable rainfall.

b. In extended use, of a concept, quality, or characteristic: substantial, considerable. Of writing, etc.: possessing significant or valuable attributes.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice

specialc1405

eminentc1420

markablec1449

noteworthy1552

regardable1572

respectable1584

of —— observation1587

considerable1589

of (great, little, etc.) mark1590

signal1591

remarkable1593

conspicuous1604

noble1604

observative1608

observable1609

significant1642

noteful1644

signalized1652

tall1655

curious1682

notice-worthy1713

unco1724

noticeable1793

handsome1813

epoch-forming1816

measurable1839

epochal1857

epoch-making1863

era-making1894

epoch-marking1895

high profile1950

landmark1959

1839 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 469 Some measurable idea may be formed of the difficulties of American jurisprudence.

1850 W. Phillips Propositions conc. Protection & Free Trade xxxi. 110 There are not wanting men of quite measurable knowledge and intellect, and quite immeasurable self-conceit.

1886 Overland Monthly Nov. 523/1 While the opposite system is not entirely free from this evil, it is a measurable improvement on the other.

1963 A. MacLeish Let. 19 Sept. in G. Murphy et al. Lett. from Lost Generation (1991) 333 Death is the perspective of every great picture ever painted and the underbeat of every measurable poem.

1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes x. 197 The individual cow qua cow has about it not..any..engaging quality such as beauty, grace, charm or even a measurable brain.

1990 H. Lewis Question of Values ii. viii. 130 Have we really said anything different, anything useful, anything measurable?

c. within (a) measurable distance of: close to possessing or attaining (a quality, condition, event, etc.).

ΚΠ

1846 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 445 No suggestions of genius, no results of thought and study, have ever come within measurable distance of the power which resides in these intimations of the word of God.

1885 Catholic World Sept. 814 What Protestant reader..will take the trouble to find out what these Elizabethan heroes were whose truth and loyalty and religion came within measurable distance of the same virtues in Coligny?

1890 Guardian 19 Nov. 1825/1 Reckless dealing in South American securities brought them..within measurable distance of bankruptcy.

1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 742/2 The third ‘shell’, a form within measurable distance of the lowest in the school.

1923 G. Pinchot in Jrnl. Amer. Hist. (1965) 52 578 Governor George Silzer of New Jersey ‘twice came within easily measurable distance of getting the meeting away’ from him.

1965 Speculum 40 413 In 1152 the Londoners appeared in the field, serving in Stephen's operations against Wallingford which came within a measurable distance of success.

†a. Measured, uniform in movement; metrical, rhythmical. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > rhythmical or measured

measurable1569

rhythmetic1603

measured1604

cadent1613

rhythmicala1620

rhythmic1773

cadenceda1790

rhythmetical1801

rhythmed1832

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xviii. f. 30^v To daunce with framed gestures, and with measurable pases.

1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. B.ii ^v The force of this measurable or tunable speaking.

1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xxxiv. 373 The graue behauior, the measurable march, the pompe & ostentation of women dancers.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 156. ⁋5 The Woman's Man expresses himself wholly in that Motion which we call Strutting: An elevated Chest, a pinched Hat, a measurable Step,..are the Marks of him.

1718 G. Sewell Proclam. Cupid 15 Awful and silent, yet when Reason calls, In measurable Words their Meaning falls.

b. Music. Having fixed rhythm with notes and rests indicating a definite duration; spec. denoting the style of plainsong in which a combination of independent voice parts was first employed; = mensural adj. 1. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion

mensuralc1570

numerous1589

numeral1610

measurable1614

rhythmica1631

numerose1714

mensurable1776

measured1782

lilting1800

rhythmic-melodic1854

rhythmized1880

1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 1 The Definitions and Diuisions of Moode, Time, and Prolation in Measurable Musick.

1879 T. Helmore Plain Song 11 Portions of Plain-Song often fall into strictly measurable forms.

†6. Mathematics. Exactly divisible by a number. Cf. measure v. 6. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [adjective] > divisible

measurable1667

divisible1702

1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 572 A Multiplex of the Product or least Dividend measurable by those Divisors.

7. Mathematics. Of a set: having a defined measure (measure n. 8h). Of a function: such that the subset of its domain that is mapped on to any given measurable subset of its range is also measurable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [adjective] > of sets

tantipartite1858

connected1893

measurable1901

ordered1901

well-ordered1901

null1903

empty1905

closed1909

orthonormal1928

matroid1935

recursively enumerable1936

simple1936

disjoint1937

partially ordered1941

1901 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 300 Jordan's definitions for the improper simple and multiple integrals relate to closed measurable regions D lying within the bounded or limited region E of integration.

1906 W. H. & G. C. Young Theory of Sets of Points xii. 260 The points at which X(x) ≧ k form a measurable set.

1915 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 387 Up to a certain point..the field of integration does not need to be measurable, nor does the integrand need to be a measurable function in the sense of Lebesgue.

1968 P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory iv. 199 From now on we choose a definite σ-field of sets, B, in the space R and since we shall later associate with it a σ-additive measure, we call a set ‘measurable’ if and only if it belongs to the σ-field B.

1986 Nonlinear Anal. 10 1160 C(·) is a measurable, closed-valued multifunction from [a-∇, a] to ℝⁿ.

†B. adv.

Moderately. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > somewhat

somedealc725

halfc1175

somewhatc1175

somethingc1275

little whatc1384

somedeallyc1400

measurablec1420

somewhatlyc1450

somewisec1450

somepartc1485

parta1500

something1548

rather1573

some1575

rathera1684

sunket1686

somethingisha1726

measurably1756

rather1770

rather1772

somec1780

sumthin1786

wee1816

sumfin1852

sumptin1852

measuredly1860

sumpin1889

part-way1954

ish1986

c1420 in C. Innes Liber S. Marie de Calchou (1846) II. 449 Drynk but mesurabyll to slokyn thi thryst.

a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 4175 There is largesse mesurable good.

1542 in J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. III (1828) II. iii. 214 (note) A lytle town in measurable good reparacions.

1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. K v The leues are..mesurable roughe.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	measurable
释义	measurableadj.adv. Brit. /ˈmɛʒ(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˈmɛʒ(ə)rəb(ə)l/, /ˈmɛʒərb(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English meserable, Middle English messurable, Middle English mesurabel, Middle English mesurabil, Middle English mesurabile, Middle English mesurabill, Middle English mesurabul, Middle English mesurabulle, Middle English mesurabyll, Middle English mesurabylle, Middle English mesureabele, Middle English–1500s mesurable, 1500s– measurable, 1600s 1800s– measureable; also Scottish pre-1700 mesorable, pre-1700 messurabil, pre-1700 messurabill, pre-1700 mesurabbill, pre-1700 mesurabil, pre-1700 mesurabill, pre-1700 mesurable, pre-1700 mesurabyl, pre-1700 mesurabyll. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mesurable. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mesurable moderate, reasonable, able to be measured (first half of the 12th cent.), and Middle French, French mesurable able to be measured (c1370; c1170 in Old French in sense ‘moderate, measured’) < post-classical Latin mensurabilis able to be measured (Vulgate), moderate, reasonable (early 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin mensūrāre measure v. + -bilis -ble suffix.In sense A. 7 after French mesurable (1898 in this sense: E. Borel Leçons sur la théorie des fonctions iii. 46). A. adj. †1. Of a person, action, etc.: characterized by moderation, esp. of diet; moderate, temperate; (occasionally) modest. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > moderateness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] evenlya1200 methefully?c1225 renable?1305 reasonablea1325 measurablec1330 skillwisea1340 moderatea1398 temperate1398 meetlya1400 measurablyc1450 rationablec1475 competent1535 midway1573 modest1582 sober1619 medious1657 slack1662 meeverly1819 low key1941 the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective] simplec1300 measurablec1330 methec1390 murec1390 smallc1405 soleinc1450 timorous1474 modest1561 unbragging1570 unboldened1591 unpresuming1607 bragless1609 unambitious1621 boastless1632 unpompous1656 verecundous1656 sober1659 tender-foreheaded1659 unpragmatical1673 unpretending1681 unpresumptuous1704 unimportant1727 unaspiringa1729 inambitious1729 unassuming1730 unostentatiousa1739 unboastful1744 pretensionless1748 unarrogating1748 uncontending1748 unopinionated1775 unboasting1802 underbearing1802 mousy1812 un-ultra1817 unarrogant1831 low-flying1835 unconceited1838 unpretentious1838 uninflated1861 unvain1863 unbumptious1865 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective] methelyeOE i-meteOE methefulOE attempre1297 measurablec1330 temprea1340 temperatec1380 temperantc1384 attemperatec1386 attemperelc1386 chastea1400 mannered1435 measureda1450 moderatea1450 well-measuredc1450 attempered1474 modest1548 sober1552 measurely1570 temperable1619 contemperate1647 submissive1753 managed1770 self-contained1838 inexplosive1867 c1330 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Auch.) (1952) 110 Trewe and stedefast, Mesurable [a1425 Linc. Inn Mesureabele], bonour, and chast. c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 435 Of his diete mesurable was he. c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale I. 936 A wyf sholde eek be mesurable in lookynge and in berynge and in lawghynge. c1450 J. Lydgate Dietary (Sloane) 20 in Anglia (1918) 42 184 (MED) Curteys of langage, of fedyng mesurable [L. mensuratus]. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. ix. sig. I.iiij Folowe his [sc. Christ's] sobre and mesurable mother. 1595 R. Southwell Triumphs over Death (1596) 6 Of feeding shee was very measurable, rather too sparing, than too liberall a diet. 1608 T. James Apol. Wickliffe 35 Abstinence with prudence was needeful, that is..measureable fasting, both of bodie and soule. †2. Of moderate (or occasionally appropriate or limited) size, dimensions, quantity, duration, speed, etc. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xxxviii. 7 Þou settest myn daies mesurable. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. iii. 235 Þat laboreris & louȝ folk taken of here maistris Is no maner of mede but a mesurable hire. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxxviii. 7 Thou sett my dayes mesurabils. c1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Tiber.) 22613 I sawgh oon..Goon a mesurable paas. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxix^v The kynge..assembled a mesurable hoost of people. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. iii^v Luke warme drynke, temperate heate, & measurable clothes. 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits iii. 28 The braine should be tempered with measurable heat. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd i. 10 Her hands little, and in a measurable manner, and fit proportion accompanied with her sweet flesh. 1829 T. Carlyle German Playwrights in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1840) II. 50 The Germans, who instead of a measurable and sufferable spicing of theatric matter,..have in fact nothing else to live on but that highly unnutritive victual. †3. a. Proportionate to. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > that is in due proportion or proportionate > proportionate to in (also for, of, with) proportiona1393 convenientc1405 affeiring1536 measurable1541 equivalent1575 commensurable1645 commoderate1650 correspondenta1656 commensurate1657 commeasurable1658 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 40 b The dyner moderate, and the drynke therunto mesurable, according to the drynesse or moystnesse of the meate. b. Characterized by due measure or proportion. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adjective] > that is in due proportion or proportionate reasonable1348 proportionala1398 proportionatea1398 proportionable?a1425 attemperate1485 measured1561 measurable1563 answerable1567 symmetral1660 adequal1678 proportionative1949 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Llll.iv^v All whiche gyftes..are..geuen to man, accordyng to the measurable distribution of the holy ghoste. 1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 83 Muche good appertaineth to those men, which are perfected vnder a measurable comprehension. 4. a. Capable of being measured; susceptible of measurement, calculation, or computation. Also: of sufficient dimensions to permit measurement; large enough to be measured; (Meteorology, of rainfall) not less than 0.05 mm (formerly 0.01 inch). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > [adjective] > measurable estimablec1460 measurable1565 dimensive1570 mensurablea1600 quantitive1626 commensurable1654 dimensurable1660 metesome1674 gaugeable1768 quantifiable1868 evaluable1880 dimensionable1884 the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > numerable or reckonable numbrablea1382 numberablea1500 computativea1538 measurable1565 numerable1570 countable1581 accountable1589 computable1610 numerous1638 reckonable1657 summable1718 calculable1742 enumerable1889 scorable1964 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > able to be measured measurable1893 1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vii. sig. U5 Nor body none is voide of boundes, but all are measurable. 1584 W. Barrett in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 215 Any measurable wares. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. iv. 79 The distance of the Firmament wherein are placed the fixt Starres, is not measurable by mans industrie. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvi. 100 Number..is that which the Mind makes use of, in measuring all things that by us are measurable. 1780 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 451 The annual increase of very old trees is hardly measurable with a string. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. i. vii. x. 394 The fire of Insurrection gets damped,..into measurable, manageable heat. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iv. 477 The descent of the diaphragm..causes measurable enlargement of the upper region of the abdomen. 1893 Times 4 May 10/4 A measurable quantity of rain fell over the western parts of England. 1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) xxxi. 277 Contrast-emphasis may be applied to almost any word, but intensity-emphasis can only be applied to certain words expressing qualities which are measurable. 1997 Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. with Programs 29 vi. a63/2 A reasonable estimate may be made from the mean annual precipitation (MAP) and the number of days per year with measurable rainfall. b. In extended use, of a concept, quality, or characteristic: substantial, considerable. Of writing, etc.: possessing significant or valuable attributes. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > worthy of notice specialc1405 eminentc1420 markablec1449 noteworthy1552 regardable1572 respectable1584 of —— observation1587 considerable1589 of (great, little, etc.) mark1590 signal1591 remarkable1593 conspicuous1604 noble1604 observative1608 observable1609 significant1642 noteful1644 signalized1652 tall1655 curious1682 notice-worthy1713 unco1724 noticeable1793 handsome1813 epoch-forming1816 measurable1839 epochal1857 epoch-making1863 era-making1894 epoch-marking1895 high profile1950 landmark1959 1839 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 469 Some measurable idea may be formed of the difficulties of American jurisprudence. 1850 W. Phillips Propositions conc. Protection & Free Trade xxxi. 110 There are not wanting men of quite measurable knowledge and intellect, and quite immeasurable self-conceit. 1886 Overland Monthly Nov. 523/1 While the opposite system is not entirely free from this evil, it is a measurable improvement on the other. 1963 A. MacLeish Let. 19 Sept. in G. Murphy et al. Lett. from Lost Generation (1991) 333 Death is the perspective of every great picture ever painted and the underbeat of every measurable poem. 1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes x. 197 The individual cow qua cow has about it not..any..engaging quality such as beauty, grace, charm or even a measurable brain. 1990 H. Lewis Question of Values ii. viii. 130 Have we really said anything different, anything useful, anything measurable? c. within (a) measurable distance of: close to possessing or attaining (a quality, condition, event, etc.). ΚΠ 1846 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 445 No suggestions of genius, no results of thought and study, have ever come within measurable distance of the power which resides in these intimations of the word of God. 1885 Catholic World Sept. 814 What Protestant reader..will take the trouble to find out what these Elizabethan heroes were whose truth and loyalty and religion came within measurable distance of the same virtues in Coligny? 1890 Guardian 19 Nov. 1825/1 Reckless dealing in South American securities brought them..within measurable distance of bankruptcy. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 742/2 The third ‘shell’, a form within measurable distance of the lowest in the school. 1923 G. Pinchot in Jrnl. Amer. Hist. (1965) 52 578 Governor George Silzer of New Jersey ‘twice came within easily measurable distance of getting the meeting away’ from him. 1965 Speculum 40 413 In 1152 the Londoners appeared in the field, serving in Stephen's operations against Wallingford which came within a measurable distance of success. 5. †a. Measured, uniform in movement; metrical, rhythmical. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [adjective] > rhythmical or measured measurable1569 rhythmetic1603 measured1604 cadent1613 rhythmicala1620 rhythmic1773 cadenceda1790 rhythmetical1801 rhythmed1832 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xviii. f. 30^v To daunce with framed gestures, and with measurable pases. 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. B.ii ^v The force of this measurable or tunable speaking. 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xxxiv. 373 The graue behauior, the measurable march, the pompe & ostentation of women dancers. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 156. ⁋5 The Woman's Man expresses himself wholly in that Motion which we call Strutting: An elevated Chest, a pinched Hat, a measurable Step,..are the Marks of him. 1718 G. Sewell Proclam. Cupid 15 Awful and silent, yet when Reason calls, In measurable Words their Meaning falls. b. Music. Having fixed rhythm with notes and rests indicating a definite duration; spec. denoting the style of plainsong in which a combination of independent voice parts was first employed; = mensural adj. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [adjective] > having rhythm or proportion mensuralc1570 numerous1589 numeral1610 measurable1614 rhythmica1631 numerose1714 mensurable1776 measured1782 lilting1800 rhythmic-melodic1854 rhythmized1880 1614 T. Ravenscroft Briefe Disc. Musicke 1 The Definitions and Diuisions of Moode, Time, and Prolation in Measurable Musick. 1879 T. Helmore Plain Song 11 Portions of Plain-Song often fall into strictly measurable forms. †6. Mathematics. Exactly divisible by a number. Cf. measure v. 6. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [adjective] > divisible measurable1667 divisible1702 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 572 A Multiplex of the Product or least Dividend measurable by those Divisors. 7. Mathematics. Of a set: having a defined measure (measure n. 8h). Of a function: such that the subset of its domain that is mapped on to any given measurable subset of its range is also measurable. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [adjective] > of sets tantipartite1858 connected1893 measurable1901 ordered1901 well-ordered1901 null1903 empty1905 closed1909 orthonormal1928 matroid1935 recursively enumerable1936 simple1936 disjoint1937 partially ordered1941 1901 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 300 Jordan's definitions for the improper simple and multiple integrals relate to closed measurable regions D lying within the bounded or limited region E of integration. 1906 W. H. & G. C. Young Theory of Sets of Points xii. 260 The points at which X(x) ≧ k form a measurable set. 1915 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 387 Up to a certain point..the field of integration does not need to be measurable, nor does the integrand need to be a measurable function in the sense of Lebesgue. 1968 P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory iv. 199 From now on we choose a definite σ-field of sets, B, in the space R and since we shall later associate with it a σ-additive measure, we call a set ‘measurable’ if and only if it belongs to the σ-field B. 1986 Nonlinear Anal. 10 1160 C(·) is a measurable, closed-valued multifunction from [a-∇, a] to ℝⁿ. †B. adv. Moderately. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > somewhat somedealc725 halfc1175 somewhatc1175 somethingc1275 little whatc1384 somedeallyc1400 measurablec1420 somewhatlyc1450 somewisec1450 somepartc1485 parta1500 something1548 rather1573 some1575 rathera1684 sunket1686 somethingisha1726 measurably1756 rather1770 rather1772 somec1780 sumthin1786 wee1816 sumfin1852 sumptin1852 measuredly1860 sumpin1889 part-way1954 ish1986 c1420 in C. Innes Liber S. Marie de Calchou (1846) II. 449 Drynk but mesurabyll to slokyn thi thryst. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 4175 There is largesse mesurable good. 1542 in J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. III (1828) II. iii. 214 (note) A lytle town in measurable good reparacions. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. K v The leues are..mesurable roughe. 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