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mensuration|mɛnsjʊəˈreɪʃən, mɛnʃ(j)ʊəˈreɪʃən|
[a. late L. mēnsūrātiōn-em, f. L. mēnsūrāre: see mensurate v. Cf. F. mensuration, Pr. mensuratio, Sp. mensuracion.]
1. The action, or an act, of measuring (anything).
1571Digges Pantom. i. xxi. F iv b, If there happen any error in the situation thereof, great inconuenience maye followe in your mensurations. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 174 In these mensurations we must not think to come so near the truth as in those things which are subject to sense. 1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 400 The Waters..destroying all their Land Marks, new Mensurations were necessary every recess of the River. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 103 ⁋5. 204 Who can believe that they who first watched the course of the stars, foresaw the use of their discoveries to the facilitation of commerce, or the mensuration of time? 1777M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1888) I. 64 A map the Doctor had procured from actual mensuration.
b. Med. A system of comparative measurement of each side of the chest by which the thoracic cavities of the body may be explored.
1821–34Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest 409 The..signs afforded by ægophony, percussion, and mensuration. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) II. 7 Mensuration merely gives more accurate information with regard to form and size.
†c. The result of measurement; size as measured. Obs.
1675Cocker Morals 50 Then take thy Shadows length; see how much more Its Mensuration exceeds that before.
2. Math. That branch of mathematics which gives the rules for ascertaining the lengths of lines, the areas of surfaces, and the volumes of solids.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Mensuration, or Measuring, is to find the Superficial Area, or Solid Content, of all Surfaces and Bodies. 1855Brewster Life Newton II. xiv. 5 He studied the mensuration of round solids.
attrib.1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede iv, With a little blue bundle over his shoulder, and his ‘mensuration book’ in his pocket.
Hence mensuˈrational a., concerned with measuring.
1880Piazzi Smyth in Nature 1 July 193/2 Three years' experimenting in mensurational spectroscopy. |