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

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

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

The geometry of very ancient peoples was largely the mensuration of simple areas and solids, such as is taught to children in elementary arithmetic to-day.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

In mensuration, in general, this proposition enters more often than any others, except those on the measuring of the rectangle and triangle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene