måttningen
Måttningen is a Swedish noun that refers to the act or result of measuring. Today the term is largely archaic or dialectal, and in standard Swedish the process is usually described as mätning. Måttningen appears mainly in historical texts, legal documents, and older technical writing.
The word is formed from mått, meaning measure, with the nominalising suffix -ningen. This reflects older spelling
Historically, måttningen described the procedure of determining precise dimensions, quantities, or extents in contexts such as