Mensuration Synonyms

mĕnsə-rāshən, -shə-
The act or process of ascertaining dimensions, quantity, or capacity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. measure
  2. measurement
  3. metrology
The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. measure
  2. survey
  3. measurement
  4. evaluation
  5. measuring

Words Related to Mensuration

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Mensuration Sentence Examples

  • This applies not only to the geometrical principles but also to the arithmetical principles, and it is therefore of importance, in the earlier stages, to keep geometry, mensuration and arithmetic in close association with one another; mensuration forming, in fact, the link between arithmetic and geometry.

  • All exact relations pertaining to the mensuration of the circle involve the ratio of the circumference to the diameter.

  • General aspects of the subject are considered under Mensuration; Vector Analysis; Infinitesimal Calculus.

  • This use of formulae for dealing with numbers, which express magnitudes in terms of units, constitutes the broad difference between mensuration and ordinary geometry, which knows nothing of units.

  • For the subjects under this heading see the articles CONIC SECTIONS; CIRCLE; CURVE; GEOMETRICAL CONTINUITY; GEOMETRY, Axioms of; GEOMETRY, Euclidean; GEOMETRY, Projective; GEOMETRY, Analytical; GEOMETRY, Line; KNOTS, MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF; MENSURATION; MODELS; PROJECTION; Surface; Trigonometry.

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