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

This leads at once to the corollary that the volume of a rectangular parallelepiped equals the product of its three dimensions, the fundamental law in the mensuration of all solids.

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

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

Comparative mensuration is a very popular process, and a very comforting process, for all, who have made small progress in self-knowledge; and this category comprehends all, but a very small minority.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old