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You might abbreviate the word measurement to measure., meas., or M., on a recipe card, on a lab report, or on shorthand notes. It is also common to see such abbreviations in headlines or newspaper titles where space is of concern. Outside of these specific instances, the word is not abbreviated in general prose.
The metric unit system is easy to handle because everything is a multiple or a fraction of ten. There is a base unit for each type of measurement, such as meter (abbreviation m) for length, gramm (abbreviation g or gr) for weight or liter (abbreviation l or lt) for volume. Ten base units have the prefix deka (which is however rarely used), for example 1 dekameter (Dm) equals to 10 meters.