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

His internal dimensions have long been a favorite theme of speculation to his friends, but, alas! the problem must ever set at defiance all the ordinary rules of mensuration.

From Doesticks, What He Says by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

These three form the foundation of trigonometry and of the mensuration of plane figures.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

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