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The character "测", historically represented in its traditional form as "測", is structurally composed of the water radical 氵 and the component 則, which jointly indicate its original semantic field of measuring water depth. From this specific hydraulic context, the character's meaning broadened to encompass measurement in a general sense, and later acquired more abstract applications such as to infer, estimate, or predict. The modern simplified form maintains the water radical but replaces 則 with its simplified variant 则, preserving the core structural relationship between its elements.
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我们明天有测试。
医生正在测量病人的体温。
科学家预测明天气温会下降。
这个设备用于检测空气质量。
通过观测数据，他们得出了结论。
根据现有证据，警方推测嫌疑人在本地。
这个测评报告详细分析了产品的优缺点。
地质队利用先进技术完成了这片区域的测绘工作。