Definitions for mensuration

mensuration men·su·ra·tion

Spelling: [men-shuh-rey-shuh n, -suh-]
IPA: /ˌmɛn ʃəˈreɪ ʃən, -sə-/

Mensuration is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1801 anagrams from letters in mensuration (aeimnnorstu).

Definitions for mensuration

noun

  1. the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
  2. the act or process of measuring.

Origin of mensuration

1565-75; Late Latin mēnsūrātiōn- (stem of mēnsūrātiō) a measuring. See measure, -ation

Examples for mensuration

The chapter on mensuration is suited to the ability of beginners.

These two propositions are fundamental in the mensuration of the prism.

Take another example of inversion, this time in the field of mensuration.

Thus we have two arts of arithmetic, and two of mensuration.

The pure part consists of arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing.

In the matter of the mensuration of the circle the annexed design has some interest.

And the exacter part of all of them is really arithmetic and mensuration.

mensuration smacked too much of the exchange, and before the time of Archimedes is practically wholly absent.

The theorem in Prop. 23 is the foundation of all mensuration of areas.

The applications of this problem to mensuration are numerous.

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