The act of setting standards or regulating the size, weight, or price of goods; the process of conducting an assize.
Formed by combining 'assize' with the suffix -ment, which creates nouns describing an action, process, or result (from Latin -mentum).
Words ending in -ment (like 'assessment,' 'improvement,' 'measurement') all follow the same pattern, making English so predictable that you can often guess what a word means even if you've never seen it before!
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