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 formula is, therefore, a very general one, relating to all the polyhedrons that are commonly met in mensuration.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The geometry of very ancient peoples was largely the mensuration of simple areas and solids, such as is taught to children in elementary arithmetic to-day.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

If one needs examples in mensuration beyond those given in a first-class textbook, they are easily found.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene