Measurement vs Examination - What's the difference?
measurement | examination |
The act of measuring.
Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.
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, title= The act of examining.
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, title= Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
A formal test involving answering written or oral questions with no or limited access to text books or the like.
As nouns the difference between measurement and examination
is that measurement is the act of measuring while examination is the act of examining.measurement
English
Noun
(en noun)Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
examination
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(wikipedia examination)Noun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}