mensuration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
    measuring; measure; measurement.
    • the measurements were carefully done
    • his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate

WordNet

Men`su*ra"tion noun
Etymology
L. mensuratio : cf. F. mensuration.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913