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 mensuration, in general, this proposition enters more often than any others, except those on the measuring of the rectangle and triangle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The first few propositions include those that lead up to the mensuration of the circle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The geometry of very ancient peoples was largely the mensuration of simple areas and solids, such as is taught to children in elementary arithmetic to-day.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

In Egypt geometry seems to have been in early times mere mensuration, confined largely to the priestly caste.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene