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

As to the mensuration of the circle it is well for us to take a broad view before coming down to details.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

There are only four leading propositions necessary for the mensuration of the circle and the determination of the value of π.

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

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