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

In the mensuration of plane figures, which may be boundaries of solid figures, this is particularly true.

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

Evidently the selection must include the great basal propositions that are needed in mensuration and in later mathematics, together with others that are necessary to prove them.

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