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

The following table may be of some service in assigning problems in mensuration in connection with the regular polyhedrons, although some of the formulas are too difficult for beginners to prove.

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

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

We find, however, in the papyrus of Ahmes, directions for the measuring of bins, and the Egyptian builders, long before his time, must have known the mensuration of the rectangular parallelepiped.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene