Term: metrology: the scientific study of measurement
Candidate hypernym: psychological feature: a feature of the mental life of a living organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: compound morphology: the part of grammar that deals with combinations of simple words into compound words → 0
Candidate hypernym: one-and-one: a foul shot that must be made in order to earn the right to a second foul shot → 0
Candidate hypernym: sensitive fern: beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes → 0
Candidate hypernym: tail: (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head → 0
Candidate hypernym: haziness: cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor → 0
Candidate hypernym: halberdier: a guard who carries a halberd (as a symbol of his duty) → 0
Candidate hypernym: dicksonia: tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: idiolect: the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life → 0
Candidate hypernym: department of state: the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies → 0
Candidate hypernym: physic nut: small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities → 0