What does MEASURE mean?

noun

1. any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal“the situation called for strong measures”
2. how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
3. a statute in draft before it becomes law“they held a public hearing on the bill”
4. the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule“the measurements were carefully done”
5. a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated“the schools comply with federal standards”
6. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
7. musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats“the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song”
8. measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements