Measures and Weights

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Weights and measures are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Weights" instead a noun "Measures".

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Measures and weights are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Measures" instead a noun "Weights".

Hermes was nearly as versatile, being god of messengers, travelers, merchants, thieves, sports, commerce, shepherds, and weights and measures.

Source: Odd Job Gods
When Emperor Justinian issued the Pragmatic Sanction (554), the pope together with the Senate was entrusted with the control of weights and measures.

Source: Useful Notes / The Papal States
This is simply a list of weights and measures, but is translated as a metaphor: "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting, Your Days Are Numbered, and your kingdom shall be divided by the Medes and the Persians".

Source: Your Days Are Numbered

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