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 act or process of ascertaining the dimensions of anything; mensuration; measurement; as, the admeasurement of a ship or of a cask.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

In Egypt geometry seems to have been in early times mere mensuration, confined largely to the priestly caste.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

It is possible to add to the work in pure geometry some work in the mensuration of the curvilinear figures shown in these designs.

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