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 Definitions for mensuration: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Mensuration \Men`su*ra"tion\, n. [L. mensuratio : cf. F.
mensuration.]
1. The act, process, or art, of measuring.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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mensuration
n : the act or process of measuring; "the measurements were
carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably
accurate" [syn: measurement, measuring, measure]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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48 Moby Thesaurus words for "mensuration":
altimetry, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment,
assize, assizement, bathymetry, biometrics, biometry, cadastration,
calculation, cartography, chorography, computation, correction,
craniometry, determination, estimate, estimation, evaluation,
gauging, geodesy, geodetics, goniometry, hypsography, hypsometry,
instrumentation, measure, measurement, measuring, metric system,
metrology, oceanography, planimetry, psychometrics, psychometry,
quantification, quantization, rating, stereometry, survey,
surveying, telemetering, telemetry, topography, triangulation,
valuation
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