mensuration - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'mensuration' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Mensuration

[ n.]

- The act, process, or art, of measuring.
- 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.

Meaning of 'mensuration' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . mensuration

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule

Example in sentence:

his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate;
the measurements were carefully done

Nearby Words:

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Mensuration
Mensuration refers to the process of measurement of a feature or location on the earth to determine an absolute latitude, longitude, and elevation.

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