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 proposition is one of the most important in Book VII, because it is the basis of the mensuration of the cylinder as well as the prism.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

This papyrus also contains some treatment of the mensuration of solids, particularly with reference to the capacity of granaries.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

It is possible to add to the work in pure geometry some work in the mensuration of the curvilinear figures shown in these designs.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

There are only four leading propositions necessary for the mensuration of the circle and the determination of the value of π.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene