'The very term mensuration sounds ENGINEER-LIKE,' I find him writing; and in truth what the engineer most properly deals with is that which can be measured, weighed, and numbered. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Family of Engineers] Reference
The subjects of instruction have all been retained in the Curriculum of the London School Board, except, perhaps, "mensuration" and "social economy.". From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
Thus we have two arts of arithmetic, and two of mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Philebus] Reference
The pure part consists of arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing. From Wordnik.com. [Philebus] Reference
The vagueness relates to the wind, which makes mensuration difficult. From Wordnik.com. [In Like a Lion] Reference
And the exacter part of all of them is really arithmetic and mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Philebus] Reference
If we use "mensuration tables," could not "figures ... calculation" be spared?. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
The mathematics in this school should consist of business arithmetic and mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [What the Schools Teach and Might Teach] Reference
They are discovered by mensuration, and they are the objects of mathematical inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime and Beautiful] Reference
They have borrowed their foot-rule for the mensuration of the universe, and they apply it indiscriminately. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
But surely beauty is no idea belonging to mensuration; nor has it anything to do with calculation and geometry. From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime and Beautiful] Reference
Still more important than Wordsworth, or the eminent authors, Burke and Hare, was the art and science of mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
While thus engaged, he managed to attend an evening class occasionally, and made an attempt at learning Latin and mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman] Reference
Cartesian, so that in local neighborhoods it is deter - mined by a system of ordinary real numbers as known from ordinary mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [SPACE] Reference
All such attempts have either found no difference overall, or have foundered on criticisms of their methodology, mensuration, or validity. From Wordnik.com. [Ada Lovelace Day - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Biometrics and forest mensuration are concerned with sampling and measuring properties such as stem form and biomass, site index, stand wood yield, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Forestry] Reference
Geometry, seemingly a clear case of abstract and theoretical science, arose out of the requirements of practical surveying and mensuration among the Egyptians. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Software for teaching and learning of mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [VersionTracker: Mac OS X] Reference
We are unfamiliar with this method of mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920] Reference
MegaMensuration is an application for teaching and learning of mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Burns met a young lass, who set his heart on fire, and put an end to mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Burns] Reference
In every thing, except where mensuration can be applied, they may honestly differ. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
And, indeed, it becomes a question of mere mensuration, that can be settled in a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
Wordsworth, or the eminent authors, Burke and Hare, was the art and science of mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
Still the mensuration went on till one day, when in the kail-yard behind the teachers house. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Burns] Reference
Which of those three devices for the mensuration of time was the most exact in its indications?. From Wordnik.com. [The Quest] Reference
Quantity is that attribute of things in virtue of which they are susceptible of exact mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
He invented a curious monochord, which was not less accurate than his clocks in the mensuration of time. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
Jo Kettle sat down and pawed about for his mensuration book, which he studied for some time upside down. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
His boyhood seemed the most accessible at first, he recalled school books and certain lessons in mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
There were banking and equation of payments and all the "roots" and progression and alligation and mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference
I took up mensuration, then astronomy, working at them slowly, but giving the bulk of my spare time to chemistry. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
During that time I went twice through the 'Tutor's Assistant,' and a month before I left I was taught mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
Fortunately in my school arithmetic there were a few hints upon mensuration, and the good master had instructed us in these. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Tar] Reference
Well, I was saying that my old teacher had taught me a few simple problems in mensuration; and fortunately I still held them in my memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Tar] Reference
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