mensuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛnsjəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: [ˌmɛnʃəˈɹeɪʃn̩]
Forms: form: mensurations
Etymology: From Late Latin mensūrātiōnem (“a measuring”).
Senses: examples: text: Having accomplished the firſt part called Longimetra, contayning ſundrie rules to meaſure lẽgthes, breadthes, heigths, depthes, and diſtances: I thinke it meete novv to proceede to the ſeconde kynde named Planimetra, vvherein ye shall haue rules for the menſuration of all manner playne Figures, to knovv their contente ſuperficiall.
ref: [a. 1560?], Leonard Digges, “The Second Kynde of Geometrie Called Planimetra”, in Leonard Digges, Thomas Digges, A Geometrical Practise, Named Pantometria, Diuided into Three Bookes, Longimetra, Planimetra and Stereometria, Containing Rules Manifolde for Mensuration of All Lines, Superficies and Solides: […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman, published 1571, →OCLC, signature [L.iv.], recto:
text: Of this ridge Soutra hill is supposed to be the highest; but hitherto no actual mensuration is known to have been taken of it : but, in judging by the view, from its elevated top, of the neighbouring hills and country, it must be upwards of 1500 feet high.
ref: 1805, Robert Forsyth, The beauties of Scotland - Volume 1, page 512:
text: It would seem that in Avebury, Stonehenge, and Malta the mystery cult of menstruation/mensuration reached its most consummate development.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 267:
text: The pointer readings will contain all the real information on the subject, and the extension of scientific principles will involve an extension of mensuration to include the new subject.
ref: 2013, P. D. Lark, B. R. Craven, R. C. L. Bosworth, The Handling of Chemical Data, →ISBN, page 1:
synonyms: word: measurement
word: measuring
word: mensuration
glosses: The act or process of measuring; measurement.
examples: text: With the passage of time I have realized that the illustrations can also serve, to some extent, to make mensuration more readily possible.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The study of measurement, especially the derivation and use of algebraic formulae to measure the areas, volumes and different parameters of geometric figures.
examples: text: Different levels of mensuration have different roles in the musical structure. The most prominent one is the one corresponding to the compositional tactus. Rhythmic groups may contradict the mensuration temporarily, but in the examples in this book, they never do so throughout an entire piece.
ref: 2015, Ruth I. DeFord, Tactus, Mensuration and Rhythm in Renaissance Music, →ISBN, page 470:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A 13th century system for governing rhythmic relationships in music that was a precursor to the modern use of time signatures; The use of mensural notation.
examples: text: Forest mensuration, in many respects the most important branch of forestry, was nicely defined by Professor Henry S. Graves (1906) in the first complete volume on forest mensuration to appear in the Americas.
ref: 1973, Thomas W. Beers, Charles I. Miller, Manual of Forest Mensuration:
topics: business
forestry
glosses: The use of quantitative measurements of forest stand to determine stand timber volume, productivity, and health.
Derived terms: mensurational
Related terms: mensural