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 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

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

His discovery also extended to the volume of the cone, and it was his work that gave the beginning to the science of stereometry, the mensuration part of solid geometry.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

In the following year he published also at Padua Geometriae pars universalis, in which he gave a series of rules for the rectification of curves and the mensuration of their solids of revolution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various