Standard Of Measurement (Noun)
Meaning
Accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared.
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The organization adopted the international prototype of the kilogram as its standard of measurement for mass.
- She was considered the standard of measurement for all young actresses in Hollywood, a true Hollywood legend.
- The company used the ISO 8601 standard as its standard of measurement for representing date and time in digital systems.
- The platinum-iridium alloy cylinder kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures is the international standard of measurement for the kilogram.
- Scientists defined the meter as the standard of measurement for length, equivalent to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a meridian.