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the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate
the measurements were carefully done
How To Use mensuration In A Sentence
- Are they earning in commensuration with market values or are there other veiled forces at play? UVa Raises Salaries Despite Budget Cuts at cvillenews.com
- It is a small treatise of seventeen folios in which we find nothing on mensuration that the arithmeticians of the East did not know.
- This section on mensuration certainly has more in common with Hindu and Hebrew texts than it does with any Greek work.
- Biometrics and forest mensuration are concerned with sampling and measuring properties such as stem form and biomass, site index, stand wood yield, etc. Forestry
- But there is also a higher arithmetic, and a higher mensuration, which is exclusively theoretical; and a dialectical science, which is higher still and the truest and purest knowledge. Philebus
- It is devoted mainly to arithmetic and algebra, with just a few problems on geometry and mensuration.
- It involves the solution of polygons given certain sides and angles between them, their mensuration, division by diagonals, circumscribing polygons around circles and inscribing polygons in circles.
- Note 13: In the first passage of De pictura, Alberti borrows a Ciceronian proverb (from De amicitia 5.16) concerning the "coarse senses of Minerva" to distinguish the sensate knowledge of a painter from a mathematician's abstract mensurations (see Kemp, "Introduction," 12). Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
- SOCRATES: And when we compare the art of mensuration which is used in building with philosophical geometry, or the art of computation which is used in trading with exact calculation, shall we say of either of the pairs that it is one or two? Philebus
- Note 13: In the first passage of De pictura, Alberti borrows a Ciceronian proverb (from De amicitia 5.16) concerning the "coarse senses of Minerva" to distinguish the sensate knowledge of a painter from a mathematician's abstract mensurations (see Kemp, "Introduction," 12). Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
