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mensuration

[men-shuh-rey-shuhn, -suh-] / ˌmɛn ʃəˈreɪ ʃən, -sə- /


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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 is also one of the basal propositions of solid geometry, and it has many applications in practical mensuration.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

This proposition is one of the most important in Book VII, because it is the basis of the mensuration of the cylinder as well as the prism.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

In this manuscript, which is devoted chiefly to fractions and to a crude algebra, is found some work on mensuration.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene




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