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Definition of Water measure

Water measure
Water measure Wa"ter meas"ure A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. --Cowell.

Meaning of Water measure from wikipedia

- Weights and measures acts are acts of the British Parliament determining the regulation of weights and measures. It also refers to similar royal and parliamentary...
- Water metering is the practice of measuring water use. Water meters measure the volume of water used by residential and commercial building units that...
- used to measure water transparency or turbidity in bodies of water. The disc is mounted on a pole or line and lowered slowly down in the water. The depth...
- deadweight (DWT) is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry. It is the sum of the weights of cargo, fuel, fresh water, ballast water, provisions, p****engers...
- Soil moisture sensors measure the volumetric water content in soil. Since the direct gravimetric measurement of free soil moisture requires removing, drying...
- and a moderator. This provides something of a p****ive safety measure, as removing the water from the reactor also slows the nuclear reaction down. However...
- Hydrometra gracilenta, the lesser water-measurer, is a species of aquatic bugs in the family Hydrometridae. Hydrometra gracilenta is 7–9 mm (0.28–0.35 in)...
- Ctesibius (died 222 BC) and Vitruvius (died after 15 BC). A water clock uses the flow of water to measure time. If viscosity is neglected, the physical principle...
- Moisture meters are measuring instruments used to measure the percentage of water in a given substance, as physical properties are strongly affected by...
- millimetre of water (US spelling centimeter or millimeter of water) are less commonly used measures of pressure based on the pressure head of water. A centimetre...