When Kitty was 9 years old, her father taught her a trick to measure the height of the windmill on her grandfather's farm: Measure its shadow and compare it with the shadow of a yardstick.
Surveyors also use them to measure height differences over large distances.
To determine the price target from this formation, measure the height of the flagpole, which is defined as the distance from the breakout above resistance to the first high, which is labeled line 1.
The mast was installed in April to measure wind speed, wave height and sea currents.
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At the height of our economic crisis, that measure all too often was delivering grim news.
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The study also took into account body mass index (BMI) - a measure which relates weight to height.
The vertebrae alone of Argentinosaurus measure 5ft (1.5m) in height.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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Not too difficult, place the barometer by the building, measure shadow, measure shadow of building, adjust by the known height of the barometer.
In the last month alone, consumer sentiment, by at least one measure, experienced the greatest monthly plunge since the height of the financial crisis.
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Height loss can alert doctors to osteoporosis that other tests miss, particularly those that measure bone density in the wrist or hip.
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