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

His internal dimensions have long been a favorite theme of speculation to his friends, but, alas! the problem must ever set at defiance all the ordinary rules of mensuration.

From Doesticks, What He Says by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

This proposition is one of the most important in Book VII, because it is the basis of the mensuration of the cylinder as well as the prism.

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