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

If one needs examples in mensuration beyond those given in a first-class textbook, they are easily found.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

His internal dimensions have long been a favorite theme of speculation to his friends, but, alas! the problem must ever set at defiance all the ordinary rules of mensuration.

From Doesticks, What He Says by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

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

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