measurement vs surveying

surveying vs measurement

measurement and surveying both are nouns.

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

As nouns, surveying is a hyponym of measurement; that is, surveying 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
surveying: the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map

Other hyponyms of measurement include seismography, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, actinometry, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, bathymetry, plumbing, calorimetry, cephalometry, 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, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry, weigh-in, audience measurement, pycnometry.

measurement (noun)	surveying (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map

Difference between measurement and surveying

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