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- Mensuration - n. - The act, process, or art, of measuring.
- Mensuration - n. - 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.
- Planimetry - n. - The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.
- Epipedometry - n. - The mensuration of figures standing on the same base.
- Seismometry - n. - The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coordinates of space.