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

In the matter of the mensuration of the circle the annexed design has some interest.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

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