Mensuration

Quick meaning: Mensuration is a noun meaning The act or process of measuring; measurement.

Meaning

The act or process of measuring; measurement.

More Meanings

1. (forestry) The use of quantitative measurements of forest stand to determine stand timber volume, productivity, and health.
2. (mathematics) The study of measurement, especially the derivation and use of algebraic formulae to measure the areas, volumes and different parameters of geometric figures.
3. (music) A 13th century system for governing rhythmic relationships in music that was a precursor to the modern use of time signatures; The use of mensural notation.

Example Sentences

It would seem that in Avebury, Stonehenge, and Malta the mystery cult of menstruation/mensuration reached its most consummate development.

With the passage of time I have realized that the illustrations can also serve, to some extent, to make mensuration more readily possible.

The pointer readings will contain all the real information on the subject, and the extension of scientific principles will involve an extension of mensuration to include the new subject.

Forest mensuration, in many respects the most important branch of forestry, was nicely defined by Professor Henry S. Graves (1906) in the first complete volume on forest mensuration to appear in the Americas.

Word Forms

• mensurations

Synonyms for mensuration

Depending on context, synonyms include measurement, measuring, measure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include measuring, measurement, measure, measuration, meterage, meter.

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