Men`su*ra"tion (?), n. [L. mensuratio : cf. F. mensuration.]

1.

The act, process, or art, of measuring.

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.

 

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