mensuration

Body temperature changes through the menstrual cycle, rising just before ovulation and falling as mensuration begins.

Some women embrace it as a time to slow down from daily duties and celebrate womanhood and mensuration, and it is this idea that the Red Tent community draws from.

Here Ockeghem, seemingly writing for three confident singers with wide vocal ranges, keeps the texture uniform and varies the mensuration, or rhythmic organization, almost not at all.

From the one, these Ionians probably gained knowledge of certain periodic movements of some of the heavenly bodies; and from the other, a few rules of mensuration, perchance a little crude science.

It is merely a question of simple mensuration, and no problem of “high mathematics” is involved.