common measure

How To Use common measure In A Sentence

• The most common measure of variability is variance and the corresponding measure of correlation between two variables is covariance.
• Firewood is generally sold by volume, the most common measure being the cord.
• She was gifted with a white face and large soft eyes — even beyond the common measure of a cow — short little horns, that she would scarcely think of pushing even at a dog (unless he made mouths at her infant), a flat broad nose ever genial to be rubbed, and a delicate fringe of finely pointed yellow hairs around her pleasant nostrils and above her clovery lips. Springhaven
• The description is a true one; the term Brahmanism represents what is common to the Hindu castes and sects; it is their greatest common measure, as it were. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments
• In speaking of the incommensurability of values, Berlin seems to have meant that there is no common measure, no ˜common currency™ for comparison, in judging between any two values in the abstract. Isaiah Berlin
• Standoff Jamming (SOJ) is a common measure of Electronic Warfare Support in modern combat.
• These weights are in decagrams, the most common measure for market goods in Poland. 100 decagrams = 1 kilogram. 1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds.
• The most common measure of the U.S. economy is the federal government’s report on the gross domestic product (GDP).
• In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.
• When therefore the mind is accustomed to these judgments and their corrections, and finds that the same proportion which makes two figures have in the eye that appearance, which we call equality, makes them also correspond to each other, and to any common measure, with which they are compared, we form a mixed notion of equality derived both from the looser and stricter methods of comparison. A Treatise of Human Nature