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

We find, however, in the papyrus of Ahmes, directions for the measuring of bins, and the Egyptian builders, long before his time, must have known the mensuration of the rectangular parallelepiped.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

This formula is, therefore, a very general one, relating to all the polyhedrons that are commonly met in 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

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