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

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 the following year he published also at Padua Geometriae pars universalis, in which he gave a series of rules for the rectification of curves and the mensuration of their solids of revolution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

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

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