mensuration

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Late Latin mensūrātiōnem (“a measuring”).

Still more important than Wordsworth, or the eminent authors, Burke and Hare, was the art and science of mensuration. — Kim, Rudyard Kipling
And according to the mensuration of the musicall time in this order, so they chaunged their places, or continued vppon the checkers dauncing, vntill that they were eyther taken or commaunded forward by the King. — Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame, Francesco Colonna
Still Arnold felt that everything was not quite settled between Sir Henry and himself, and wrote accordingly, advising that a written guarantee be forwarded or delivered in person to him by an officer of Sir Henry's staff of his own mensuration. — The Loyalist: A Story of the American Revolution, James Francis Barrett

measurement, measuring, measure

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