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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the scientific study of measurement;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Metrology \Me*trol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? measure + -m['e]trologie.] The science of, or a system of, weights and measures; also, a treatise on the subject. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

metrology n 1: the scientific study of measurement