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

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

This is a fundamental theorem leading up to the mensuration of the prism.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

In Egypt geometry seems to have been in early times mere mensuration, confined largely to the priestly caste.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene