measurement vs cephalometry

cephalometry vs measurement

measurement and cephalometry both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
measurement	Yes	No	No	No
cephalometry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cephalometry is a hyponym of measurement; that is, cephalometry is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than measurement:

measurement: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
cephalometry: measurement of human heads

Other hyponyms of measurement include seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, actinometry, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, bathymetry, plumbing, calorimetry, densitometry, dosimetry, fetometry, foetometry, gravimetry, hydrometry, hypsography, hypsometry, mental measurement, micrometry, observation, pelvimetry, photometry, quantification, radioactive dating, meter reading, reading, sampling, sounding, sound ranging, scaling, spirometry, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry, weigh-in, audience measurement, pycnometry.

measurement (noun)	cephalometry (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	measurement of human heads

Difference between measurement and cephalometry

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