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 is also one of the basal propositions of solid geometry, and it has many applications in practical mensuration.

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

As to the mensuration of the circle it is well for us to take a broad view before coming down to details.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

It is merely a question of simple mensuration, and no problem of “high mathematics” is involved.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard