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

In this manuscript, which is devoted chiefly to fractions and to a crude algebra, is found some work on mensuration.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

Comparative mensuration is a very popular process, and a very comforting process, for all, who have made small progress in self-knowledge; and this category comprehends all, but a very small minority.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

For the mensuration of the circle they later used, as did the early Hebrews, the value π = 3.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

These two propositions are fundamental in the mensuration of the prism.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene