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

His discovery also extended to the volume of the cone, and it was his work that gave the beginning to the science of stereometry, the mensuration part of solid geometry.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

In the mensuration of plane figures, which may be boundaries of solid figures, this is particularly true.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene