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

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

We find, however, in the papyrus of Ahmes, directions for the measuring of bins, and the Egyptian builders, long before his time, must have known the mensuration of the rectangular parallelepiped.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The applications of this problem to mensuration are numerous.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The following table may be of some service in assigning problems in mensuration in connection with the regular polyhedrons, although some of the formulas are too difficult for beginners to prove.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene