# Measurement Word

> Admitting a measurement or property such as duration, interval or budget as a vocabulary word, where it names data held in a file rather than a role or a thing.

Record: `lexicon:measurement-word`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-measurement-word

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Grouping Label](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/grouping-label.md) and before [Instance Identifier Word](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/instance-identifier-word.md).

## Category

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/taxonomy-classification-naming.md)

## Negated by

- [Closed Vocabulary](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/closed-vocabulary.md)

## Linked from

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-taxonomy-classification-naming.md)
- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-taxonomy-classification-naming.md)