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• v  determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of

• measure
• mensurate

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• What Happens When Olympians Tie for a Medal?
  In order to tie, Tina Maze of Slovenia and Dominique Gisin of Switzerland had to navigate a 1.67-mile course in exactly the same time, down to a hundredth of a second, and they did: they both completed the course in 41.57 seconds. As the New York Times explains, Olympic officials actually measure out to four decimal places for each race, or to the 10,000th of a second, meaning that it's possible ...
  Feb. 12, 2014 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News