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The act, process, or art, of measuring.

Same as Admeasurement.

t of commensurating; the state of being commensurate. All fitness lies in a particular commensuration, or proportion of one thing to another. South.

The mensuration of figures standing on the same base. [Obs.]

he other side, or gives him an unearned base. Law of error, or Law of frequency of error (Mensuration), the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be committed in making a large number of careful measurements of a quantity. -- Probable error. (Me…

Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.

The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.

The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.

om 75 to 100 cubic inches. Cf. Supplemental air, under Supplemental. -- Residual error. (Mensuration) See Error, 6 (b). -- Residual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one. -- Residual magnetism (Physics), remanent magnetism. See under Remanent. -- Residual pro…

In the duodecimal system of mensuration, the twelfth part of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8.

The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coördinates of space.