Sentence examples for mensuration from inspiring English sources

That would bring cheers from mensuration laboratories around the globe.

De architectura is divided into 10 books dealing with city planning and architecture in general; building materials; temple construction and the use of the Greek orders; public buildings (theatres, baths); private buildings; floors and stucco decoration; hydraulics; clocks, mensuration, and astronomy; and civil and military engines.

He prepared about 100 maps and wrote on mensuration and ancient geography.

Stevin emphasized the utility of decimal arithmetic "for all accounts that are encountered in the affairs of men," and he explained in an appendix how it could be applied to surveying, stereometry, astronomy, and mensuration.

He was fairly well trained in practical mathematics gauging, several types of mensuration, and such trigonometry as was useful in surveying.

Weyl (1949a, 103) remarks "… therefore mensuration need not depend on clocks and rigid bodies but … light signals and mass points moving under the influence of inertia alone will suffice".

The task of the geometer was to take physical mensuration devices in that space and work with them.

1300 Remember, this is the first year that the National Happiness Quotient Mensuration Agency has been empowered to forcibly enter your home and measure your happiness, both individual and collective.