noun
definition
The act of ascertaining.
Examples of ascertainment in a Sentence
This is the case with the Homeric poems, the ascertainment of the original form of which is a task beyond the powers of criticism.
The successive entries of the moon and planets into the nakshatras (the ascertainment of which was of great astrological importance) were fixed by means of their conjunctions with the yogataras.
The German explorers excavated the Stadium so far as was necessary for the ascertainment of all essential points.
His detection of considerable errors in the tables then in use led him to the conclusion that a more accurate ascertainment of the places of the fixed stars was indispensable to the progress of astronomy; and, finding that Flamsteed and Hevelius had already undertaken to catalogue those visible in northern latitudes, he assumed to himself the task of making observations in the southern hemisphere.
The details vary in the different provinces; but, broadly speaking, a settlement may be described as the ascertainment of the agricultural capacity of the land.
In the United Provinces and the Punjab the ascertainment of the actual rents paid is the Pro The other necessary preliminary to the land revenue demand.
The exhaustive ascertainment of stellar parallaxes, combined with the visible facts of stellar distribution, would enable us to build a perfect plan of the universe in three dimensions.
A similar ascertainment bias appears to be present in the exclusive focus on HIV.
But a logical division like this is not logy necessarily conducive to the ascertainment and remembrance of the historical progress and present significance of the science.
The two main objects of the expedition were the suppression of slavery by means of civilizing influences, and the ascertainment of the watershed in the region between Nyasa and Tanganyika.