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

These two propositions are fundamental in the mensuration of the prism.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

From these results follow again the rules at present given for the mensuration of solids, viz. a pyramid is the third part of a triangular prism having the same base and the same altitude.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

In mensuration, in general, this proposition enters more often than any others, except those on the measuring of the rectangle and triangle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene