Measurement [ ISO/IEC 99, ISO/IEC 15939 ]: Set of operations having the object of determining a value of a measure.

Measurement [ IEEE 1061 ]: Act or process of assigning a number or category to an entity to describe an attribute of that entity.

Measurement [ ISO/IEC 19759 ]: The assignment of numbers to objects in a systematic way to represent properties of the object.

Measurement [ ISO/IEC 9126-1, ISO/IEC 14598 ]: The use of a metric to assign a value (which may be a number or category) from a scale to an attribute of an entity.

Measurement [ ISO/IEC 19759 ]: the assignment of values and labels to aspects of software engineering (products, processes, and resources) and the models that are derived from them, whether these models are developed using statistical, expert knowledge or other techniques.

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