measuring vs sound ranging

sound ranging vs measuring

measuring and sound ranging both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
measuring	Yes	No	No	No
sound ranging	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sound ranging is a hyponym of measuring; that is, sound ranging 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
sound ranging: locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions

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, meter reading, reading, sampling, sounding, scaling, spirometry, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, thermogravimetry, tonometry, viscometry, viscosimetry, weigh-in, audience measurement, pycnometry.

measuring (noun)	sound ranging (noun)
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule	locating a source of sound (as an enemy gun) by measurements of the time the sound arrives at microphones in known positions

Difference between measuring and sound ranging

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