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

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

From the one, these Ionians probably gained knowledge of certain periodic movements of some of the heavenly bodies; and from the other, a few rules of mensuration, perchance a little crude science.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward

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

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