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

From the one, these Ionians probably gained knowledge of certain periodic movements of some of the heavenly bodies; and from the other, a few rules of mensuration, perchance a little crude science.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward

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

In architecture and in mechanics the cylinder is constantly seen, and the mensuration of the surface and the volume is important.

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