Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The mensuration of plane surfaces, or that part of geometry which regards lines and plane figures.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mathematics The measurement of distances, angles and areas on a plane, especially on a map

Etymologies

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plani- + -metry

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Examples

  • Find the surface of each area by planimetry and multiply this value with the runoff coefficient of that particular area (average reduction factor at the end of the design period) to find the surface of the reduced tributary area;

    1. Intake structures 1999

  • In drying, the gelatine contracts, and, necessarily, causes a deformation of the tissue, which curls up at the edges and loses its planimetry.

    Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois

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