gross measurement

Timing a performance is only a gross measurement of tempo, of course.

It is possible that the processing may dehydrate the presbyopic lens nuclei; however, the potential structural changes may occur on too small a scale to significantly affect the gross measurements made here.

Such data - similar to the feedback that Nielsen ratings have given television programmers and far more detailed than gross measurements like circulation or even readership - is golden to newspapers as they enter the year 2000.

As a gross measurement of reliability, fuzzing can suggest which parts of a program should get special attention, in the form of a code audit, application of static code analysis, or partial rewrites.

Its proportions, far more subtle than just the first reported gross measurements of two meters by three meters by five meters, included graceful indenta- tions and curves that made it resemble a shaft of liquid cut from a magnificent wave of molten metal and frozen in a sparkling instant of time.