Grammetry

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The practice of measuring weight or mass, especially using grams as the unit of measurement
2. The science or process of determining how heavy something is by gram-based measurement
3. Measurement of mass carried out in grams, as in precise laboratory weighing

Etymology: Grammetry is a learned coinage built from two Greek words: "gramma," meaning a letter or something written, and "metron," meaning a measure. The first comes from "graphein," to write, which also gave English "graph" and "-graphy." The second is the root behind "meter," and the ending "-metry" is the same one found in "geometry," which means "earth-measuring," and "trigonometry," which means "triangle-measuring." The word is rare, and its exact first recorded use is uncertain, though it likely dates to the early modern period, when scholars often assembled English terms from Greek parts. Its sense is generally given as the measurement of letters or written matter, a meaning that follows directly from its two parts.