Mensuration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mensuration \Men`su*ra"tion\, n. [L. mensuratio : cf. F.
     mensuration.]
     1. The act, process, or art, of measuring.
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     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mensuration
       n : the act or process of measuring; "the measurements were
           carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably
           accurate" [syn: {measurement}, {measuring}, {measure}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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