'Mensuration' definitions:
Definition of 'mensuration'
From: WordNet
noun
The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate" [syn: measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration]
Definition of 'Mensuration'
From: GCIDE
- Mensuration \Men`su*ra"tion\, n. [L. mensuratio : cf. F. mensuration.]
- 1. The act, process, or art, of measuring. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mensuration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- altimetry,
- appraisal,
- appraisement,
- approximation,
- assessment,
- assize,
- assizement,
- bathymetry,
- biometrics,
- biometry,
- cadastration,
- calculation,
- cartography,
- chorography,
- computation,
- correction,
- craniometry,
- determination,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- evaluation,
- gauging,
- geodesy,
- geodetics,
- goniometry,
- hypsography,
- hypsometry,
- instrumentation,
- measure,
- measurement,
- measuring,
- metric system,
- metrology,
- oceanography,
- planimetry,
- psychometrics,
- psychometry,
- quantification,
- quantization,
- rating,
- stereometry,
- survey,
- surveying,
- telemetering,
- telemetry,
- topography,
- triangulation,
- valuation