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

From these results follow again the rules at present given for the mensuration of solids, viz. a pyramid is the third part of a triangular prism having the same base and the same altitude.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

He studies form, in mensuration, throughout his course in arithmetic, and this, too, is good educational policy.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

This leads at once to the corollary that the volume of a rectangular parallelepiped equals the product of its three dimensions, the fundamental law in the mensuration of all solids.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene