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
The first few propositions include those that lead up to the mensuration of the circle.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
Evidently the selection must include the great basal propositions that are needed in mensuration and in later mathematics, together with others that are necessary to prove them.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
From the one, these Ionians probably gained knowledge of certain periodic movements of some of the heavenly bodies; and from the other, a few rules of mensuration, perchance a little crude science.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward
His internal dimensions have long been a favorite theme of speculation to his friends, but, alas! the problem must ever set at defiance all the ordinary rules of mensuration.
From Doesticks, What He Says by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander
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