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 mensuration of the volume of the prism, including the rectangular parallelepiped and cube, was known to the ancients.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

Comparative mensuration is a very popular process, and a very comforting process, for all, who have made small progress in self-knowledge; and this category comprehends all, but a very small minority.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

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

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