Meaning of MENSURATION
| Pronunciation: | | `menshu'reyshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the act or process of measuring; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate" |
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| | Synonyms: | | measure, measurement, measuring |
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| | See Also: | | actinometry, activity, algometry, anemography, anemometry, angulation, anthropometry, arterial blood gases, audiometry, bathymetry, calorimetry, densitometry, dosimetry, fetometry, foetometry, gravimetry, hydrometry, hypsography, hypsometry, mental measurement, meter reading, observation, pelvimetry, plumbing, quantification, quantitative analysis, quantitative chemical analysis, radioactive dating, reading, sampling, scaling, sound ranging, sounding, spirometery, surveying, telemetry, thermometry, viscometry | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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