Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mensuration"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mensuration \Men`su*ra"tion\, n. [L. mensuratio : cf. F.
mensuration.]
1. The act, process, or art, of measuring.
2. That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for
finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the
volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and
angles.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mensuration
n : the act or process of measuring; "the measurements were
carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably
accurate" [syn: {measurement}, {measuring}, {measure}]
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