34 examples of mensuration in sentences

If a man wishes to build a house, does it fetter him to know square measure, cubic contents, geometry, mensuration, and mechanical laws?

So clearly is this recognized, that the development of large scale business has led to the evolution of new methods of accountancy, designed to make detailed mensuration possible.

Our sensations will undoubtedly be in proportion to such circumstances, or our joy to the appreciation or mensuration of the evil which has been removed.

At this school he stayed till the end of 1813 and thoroughly learned arithmetic (from Walkingame's book), book-keeping by double entry (on which knowledge throughout his life he set a special value), the use of the sliding rule (which knowledge also was specially useful to him in after life), mensuration and algebra (from Bonnycastle's books).

Measurement N. measurement, admeasurement^, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate, estimation; dead reckoning, reckoning &c (numeration) 85; gauging &c v.; horse power.

The first is Adcock's Engineers' Pocket Book, and contains tables of British weights and measures, multiplication and division obtained by inspection, tables of squares and cubes and square and cube roots, and mensuration; tables of the areas and circumferences of circles, &c.; the mechanical powers, animal strength, mills and steam-engines, treatises on hydraulics, pneumatics, heat, &c., and on the strength and heat of materials.

The professor of mensuration, a fussy and consequential little fellow, a volunteer on the staff, and a man of singularly slight knowledge of young men, very fond of showing his authority, especially at the public examinations at the end of the term, had incurred the wrath of the class and become the butt of all its practical jokes.

SCHUMACHER, FRANCIS X. Forest mensuration.

BLAND, JAMES R. Solid mensuration with proofs.

Solid mensuration with proofs.

SEE Kern, Willis F. KERN, WILLIS F. Solid mensuration with proofs.

SEE Barton, Donald. BRUCE, DAVID. Forest mensuration.

Forest mensuration, by Donald Bruce & Francis X. Schumacher.

BRUCE, ROGER I. Forest mensuration.

BRUCE, DONALD. Forest mensuration.

BLAND, JAMES R. Solid mensuration with proofs.

Solid mensuration with proofs.

SEE Kern, Willis F. KERN, WILLIS F. Solid mensuration with proofs.

SEE Barton, Donald. BRUCE, DAVID. Forest mensuration.

Forest mensuration, by Donald Bruce & Francis X. Schumacher.

BRUCE, ROGER I. Forest mensuration.

SEE CHERONIS, NICHOLAS D. ROOD, MARGARET B. Forest mensuration.

SCHUMACHER, FRANCIS X. Forest mensuration.

SCHUMACHER, MURIEL M. Forest mensuration.

Forest mensuration.

34 examples of  mensuration  in sentences