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

This leads at once to the corollary that the volume of a rectangular parallelepiped equals the product of its three dimensions, the fundamental law in the mensuration of all solids.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

This papyrus also contains some treatment of the mensuration of solids, particularly with reference to the capacity of granaries.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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 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