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According to WordNet, the noun "measure" has 9 sense(s).

100996969 the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate".

106864725 musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song".

107260623 a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work".

103733644 a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance.

106536853 a statute in draft before it becomes law; "they held a public hearing on the bill".

107094093 (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse.

100174412 any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal; "the situation called for strong measures"; "the police took steps to reduce crime".

100033615 how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify.

103735637 measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements.

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