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 act or process of ascertaining the dimensions of anything; mensuration; measurement; as, the admeasurement of a ship or of a cask.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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

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

In mensuration, in general, this proposition enters more often than any others, except those on the measuring of the rectangle and triangle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene