Measure

Measure may refer to:

Laws

• Measure of the Church of England, a law passed by the General Synod and the UK Parliament equivalent, to an Act
• Measure of the National Assembly for Wales, a law specific to Wales passed by the Welsh Assembly between 2007 and 2011
• Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)

Mathematics and science

• Measure (mathematics), a way to assign non-negative real numbers to subsets
  • Metric (mathematics), a formal rule to assess a relationship of entities
• Measure (physics), a way to integrate over all possible histories of a system in quantum field theory
• Measuring coalgebra, a coalgebra constructed from two algebras

Units

• Measure (bartending) or jigger, a bartending tool used to measure liquor
• Measure (termination), a way to describe termination of processes, algorithms, or functions
• Bar (music) or measure, a unit of time in Western music representing a regular grouping of beats
• Coal measure is a seam of coal
• Measurement, the process of establishing the magnitude of some attribute of an object relative to some unit of measurement

Other uses

• Measure (album), a 2000 album from Matt Pond PA
• Measure (data warehouse), a property on which calculations can be made using precomputed aggregates
• Measure (journal), an international journal of formal poetry
• Measure (typography), in typography refers to the width of a block or column of text from the left margin to the right margin
• Countermeasure, a system designed to prevent weapons from acquiring and/or destroying a target

See also

• Quantity