Measures
- Femtolitre, a metric unit of volume
- Foot-lambert, a unit of luminance
- Flawless, a grade of diamond clarity
- Flight level, a standard nominal altitude of an aircraft, in hundreds of feet
- Fork length, a standard fish measurement
- Forestay length, in sailing
- Denotes "fluid" in fluid ounce (fl oz)
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Famous quotes containing the word measures:
“The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child within us—i.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creature—in order to become an independent competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used in ourselves.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a sound currency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)