careful measurement

collocation in English

meaningsofcarefulandmeasurement

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careful
adjective
uk
/ˈkeə.fəl/us
/ˈker.fəl/
giving a lot of attention to what you are doing so that you do not have an accident, make a mistake, or ...
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measurement
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ə.mənt/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ.mənt/
the act or process ...
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Carefulmeasurementby both methods is essential for selecting the most appropriate device.
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If we were living in authoritarian society, there would be acarefulmeasurementof the intake of recruits into the theatrical profession and the needs of the community.
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It can be corrected withcarefulmeasurementof the ultrashort pulse and compensate the phase distortion.
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Itscarefulmeasurementwas critical, since the accuracy of the whole triangulation network depended on it.
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Thus, thecarefulmeasurementof the length of one baseline can fix the scale of an entire triangulation network.
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Most walk and talk but how well they do these things requirescarefulmeasurement.
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The experiment was designed along scientific lines withcarefulmeasurementat each stage.
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Carefulmeasurementof the star's position allows this angular movement, known as proper motion, to be calculated.
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This sometimes involvescarefulmeasurement, design and manufacturing.
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Thermodynamic information about hydration has been obtained from careful measurements of solution density and ultrasound velocity.
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Careful measurements of radiation as a function of depth in the oil enabled us to calculate the effective heat source and consequently the temperature distribution.
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I am sure that he had taken the necessary precautions by careful measurements of the room, prior to undertaking the unusual project.
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We plan to make more careful measurements to see how important this effect is.
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To examine this possibility, careful measurements of local directional preferences must be per formed.
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We made careful measurements of photoreceptor number and length, and outer segment length, and found no differences sufficient to explain the difference in ocular rhodopsin in black and albino mice.
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Careful measurements are taken to ensure that the lenses are properly centred and that the spectacles fit the patient's face.
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This, if it occurs, will be detectable only by careful measurements over long periods of time.
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Early results cannot be expected since careful measurements over a long period will be necessary to detect any increase in rainfall over that which would have occurred naturally.
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However, by making careful measurements of pigments, close approximations can be made.
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By careful measurements with dynamometers he validated his theory that a versed sine wave produces the ideal shape.
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