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

The first few propositions include those that lead up to the mensuration of the circle.

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

In the mensuration of plane figures, which may be boundaries of solid figures, this is particularly true.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

We find, however, in the papyrus of Ahmes, directions for the measuring of bins, and the Egyptian builders, long before his time, must have known the mensuration of the rectangular parallelepiped.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene