mensuration
Americannoun
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the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
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the act or process of measuring.
noun
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the study of the measurement of geometric magnitudes such as length
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the act or process of measuring; measurement
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of mensuration
1565–75; < Late Latin mēnsūrātiōn- (stem of mēnsūrātiō ) a measuring. See measure, -ation
Example Sentences
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Body temperature changes through the menstrual cycle, rising just before ovulation and falling as mensuration begins.
From The Verge • Oct. 26, 2021
His discovery also extended to the volume of the cone, and it was his work that gave the beginning to the science of stereometry, the mensuration part of solid geometry.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
It is merely a question of simple mensuration, and no problem of “high mathematics” is involved.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
In the following year he published also at Padua Geometriae pars universalis, in which he gave a series of rules for the rectification of curves and the mensuration of their solids of revolution.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
The geometry of very ancient peoples was largely the mensuration of simple areas and solids, such as is taught to children in elementary arithmetic to-day.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
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