measuring vs meter reading

meter reading vs measuring

measuring and meter reading both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
measuring	Yes	No	No	No
meter reading	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, meter reading is a hyponym of measuring; that is, meter reading is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than measuring:

measuring: the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
meter reading: the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments

Other hyponyms of measuring 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, reading, sampling, sounding, sound ranging, scaling, spirometry, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry, weigh-in, audience measurement, pycnometry.

measuring (noun)	meter reading (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
	a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument

Difference between measuring and meter reading

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