mensuration

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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

If one needs examples in mensuration beyond those given in a first-class textbook, they are easily found.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The mensuration of the volume of the prism, including the rectangular parallelepiped and cube, was known to the ancients.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

These three form the foundation of trigonometry and of the mensuration of plane figures.

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