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

There are only four leading propositions necessary for the mensuration of the circle and the determination of the value of π.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

Evidently the selection must include the great basal propositions that are needed in mensuration and in later mathematics, together with others that are necessary to prove them.

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