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 act or process of ascertaining the dimensions of anything; mensuration; measurement; as, the admeasurement of a ship or of a cask.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

For the mensuration of the circle they later used, as did the early Hebrews, the value π = 3.

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

It is possible to add to the work in pure geometry some work in the mensuration of the curvilinear figures shown in these designs.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene