mensuration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mensuration	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mensuration
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mensuration n the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate" Synonym(s): measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mensuration \Men`su*ra"tion\, n. [L. mensuratio : cf. F. mensuration.] 1. The act, process, or art, of measuring. 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.