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

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

The applications of this problem to mensuration are numerous.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

This papyrus also contains some treatment of the mensuration of solids, particularly with reference to the capacity of granaries.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The mensuration of the volume of the prism, including the rectangular parallelepiped and cube, was known to the ancients.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene