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-metry

a combining form with the meaning “the process of measuring” that specified by the initial element: anthropometry; chronometry.

Origin:
< Gk -metria action or process of measuring, equiv. to métr(on) measure (see meter 2 ) + -ia -y 3
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-metry suff.
The process or science of measuring: micrometry.

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