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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mensuration \Men'su*ra"tion\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mensuration
noun: the act or process of measuring; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate" [syn: {measurement}, {measuring}, {measure}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "mensuration": altimetry, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment, assize, assizement, bathymetry, biometrics, biometry, cadastration, calculation, cartography, chorography, computation, correction, craniometry, determination, estimate, estimation, evaluation, gauging, geodesy, geodetics, goniometry, hypsography, hypsometry, instrumentation, measure, measurement, measuring, metric system, metrology, oceanography, planimetry, psychometrics, psychometry, quantification, quantization, rating, stereometry, survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, topography, triangulation, valuation
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