mensuration

• The professor of mensuration, a fussy and consequential little fellow, a volunteer on the staff, and a man of singularly slight knowledge of young men, very fond of showing his authority, especially at the public examinations at the end of the term, had incurred the wrath of the class and become the butt of all its practical jokes. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
• For mensuration, flip through a school level textbook for basic formulae on areas, surface areas and volumes of triangles, circles, cylinders, cones, cuboids and spheres. —  LearnHub Activities
• Enough of mensuration was taught him to enable him to find out, though rather roughly, what was the size of a field, and how much corn would go into a granary of any particular size. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
• They have borrowed their foot-rule for the mensuration of the universe, and they apply it indiscriminately. —  Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
• It is a mistake to believe this a mental infirmity of the race; for a very large number of the students in college at the present time do as well in mathematics, geometry, trigonometry, mensuration, and conic sections as the white students of the same age; and some of them excel in mathematics The majority of the Colored students in the Southern schools qualify themselves to teach and preach; while the remainder go to law and medicine. —  History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

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